Radiolites sauvagesi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RadiolitesPBDB
- 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 8.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya.
18 occurrences of Radiolites sauvagesi 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
18 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
These 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
8 formations
- Sant Corneli Formation2
- Hortezuelos Formation2
- Galala Formation2
- Wata Formation2
- Abu Qada Formation1
- Halal Formation1
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The named rock units Radiolites sauvagesi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Radiolites sauvagesi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Radiolites sauvagesi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Vaccinites6 sites
- Biradiolites4 sites
- Hippuritella4 sites
- Cuneolina3 sites
- Hippurites3 sites
- Praeradiolites3 sites
- Vaccinites sulcatus3 sites
- Costagyra olisiponensis2 sites
- Dicyclina schlumbergeri2 sites
- Durania2 sites
- Fossulites2 sites
- Glossus aquilinus2 sites
- Miliolidae2 sites
- Ophthalmidiidae2 sites
- Plagioptychus2 sites
- Plicatula (Plicatula) auressensis2 sites
- Praelapeirousia2 sites
- Pseudocyclammina2 sites
- Pseudonummoloculina2 sites
- Radiolites lusitanicus2 sites
- Radiolites praegalloprovincialis2 sites
- Textulariidae2 sites
- Trochamminidae2 sites
- Vaccinites cornuvaccinum gaudryi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Radiolites sauvagesi, 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
13 references- Taxonomy and palaeoecology of the Cenomanian-Turonian macroinvertebrates from eastern Sinai, Egypt (part A)4
- La faune à rudistes, porifères et scléractiniaires du Crétacé superieur du mont Ptoon (Béotie septentrionale, Grèce continentale) [The fauna with rudists, porifers and corals of upper Cretaceous of mount Ptoon (Northern Beotia, central Greece)]2
- Rudist horizons in the Montsec (South Central Pyrenees)2
- The Turonian–Campanian rudist bivalve succession in the Central Iberian Basin1
- Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) bivalves from the Hameimat Massifs, north of Tebessa, Algeria: Systematics, biostratigraphy, palaeoecological and taphonomical remarks1
- Chemostratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian shallow-water carbonate: new correlation for the rudist levels from north Sinai, Egypt1
- Palaeoecology and environmental significance of benthic associations from the Cenomanian-Turonian of eastern Sinai, Egypt1
- Succession of rudistid lithosomes along the western coastal margin of the Iberian Basin (Coniacian, Castrojimeno Section, central Spain)1
- New taxonomic and biostratigraphic data on the Upper Cenomanian – Turonian Radiolitidae (Bivalvia: Hippuritoidea) of Abu Roash, Western Desert, Egypt1
- Cretaceous rudists of Boeotia, Central Greece1
- On the Senonian rudist-bearing sediments in Yugoslavia1
- Upper Cretaceous rudists distribution in the Mediterranean Tethys: comparison between platforms from Spain and South Central Italy1
Each of the 18 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. 1 further reference is 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 content1
Picture of Radiolites sauvagesi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itRadiolites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Hombres-Firmas 1838)