Praeradiolites

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RadiolitidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hippuritida
Time the record covers
At least 41 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.
182 occurrences of Praeradiolites on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
182 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
33 formations
- Vallcarga Formation15
- Galala Formation11
- Gour-de-l'Arche Formation5
- Ugod Formation5
- Halal Formation5
- Trieste Karst Limestone Formation5
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The named rock units Praeradiolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 88 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Praeradiolites and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Praeradiolites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
514 taxa- Biradiolites29 sites
- Hippurites27 sites
- Radiolites26 sites
- Vaccinites23 sites
- Hippuritella18 sites
- Bournonia13 sites
- Apricardia12 sites
- Lapeirousia12 sites
- Durania10 sites
- Hippuritella lapeirousei10 sites
- Plagioptychus9 sites
- Cucullaea8 sites
- Granocardium productum8 sites
- Sauvagesia8 sites
- Granocardium7 sites
- Lapeirousia jouanneti7 sites
- Agriopleura6 sites
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) pliciferum6 sites
- Icthyosarcolites6 sites
- Lyriochlamys6 sites
- Monopleura6 sites
- Pchelinsevia6 sites
- Pycnodonte vesicularis6 sites
- Rastellum6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Praeradiolites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
51 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages31
- Rudist horizons in the Montsec (South Central Pyrenees)20
- Upper Cretaceous rudists distribution in the Mediterranean Tethys: comparison between platforms from Spain and South Central Italy13
- Coniacian-Maastrichtian of the Tremp Area (South Central Pyrenees)8
- The Turonian rudist-bearing carbonate platforms of the Charentes and Perigord areas, Aquitaine Basin (France)7
- Late Cretaceous macrofossils from Sinai, Egypt6
- Rudist Biostratigraphy in the Campanian-Maastrichtian of the south-central Pyrenees, Spain6
- Palaeoecology and environmental significance of benthic associations from the Cenomanian-Turonian of eastern Sinai, Egypt5
- Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian macroinvertebrates from eastern Sinai, Egypt (part A)5
- On the Senonian rudist-bearing sediments in Yugoslavia5
- The development of the mollusc fauna in the Cenomanian of the stratigraphie sequence of Visogliano (Karst of Trieste, Italy)5
- La faune des rudistes des environs de Sümeg (Hongrie) [The rudist fauna from Sümeg (Hungary)]5
Each of the 182 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 39 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2

Picture of Praeradiolites
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Eunostos
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRadiolitidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Douvillé 1902