Radiolites spongicola
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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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Radiolites spongicola 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Radiolites spongicola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Radiolites spongicola and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Radiolites spongicola and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
121 taxa- Hippurites colliciatus3 sites
- Plagioptychus3 sites
- Biradiolites2 sites
- Ceratostreon2 sites
- Favus antei2 sites
- Hippurites2 sites
- Joufia reticulata2 sites
- Lapeirousia2 sites
- Lapeirousia jouanneti2 sites
- Mitrocaprina bulgarica2 sites
- Orbitoides media2 sites
- Pironaea slavonica2 sites
- Praeradiolites2 sites
- Radiolitella maestrichtiana2 sites
- Sauvagesia2 sites
- Vaccinites2 sites
- Accordiella1 site
- Actaeonella caucasiea styriacus1 site
- Acutostrea incurva1 site
- Agerostrea1 site
- Agriopleura1 site
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) pliciferum1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Radiolites spongicola, 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
4 references- Chronostratigraphy of Campanian-Maastrichtian platform carbonates and rudist associations of Salento (Apulia, Italy)1
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages1
- Rudist fauna in the Maastrichtian deposits of southern Salento (southern Italy)1
- La faune des rudistes des environs de Sümeg (Hongrie) [The rudist fauna from Sümeg (Hungary)]1
Each of the 4 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. 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 content0
No picture of Radiolites spongicola was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Radiolites spongicola, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Radiolites spongicola was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itRadiolites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Astre 1954