Rafinesquina urbicola
No picture of Rafinesquina urbicola was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Rafinesquina urbicola, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RafinesquinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rafinesquina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rafinesquina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rafinesquina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.2 Mya and 443.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Rafinesquina urbicola on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Rafinesquina urbicola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rafinesquina urbicola and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Rafinesquina urbicola and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Aegiromena (Aegiromenella) planissima1 site
- Amplexograptus1 site
- Bollia1 site
- Brongniartella platynota1 site
- Dalmanella testudinaria1 site
- Fardenia comes1 site
- Hirnantia sagittifera1 site
- Kettnerites1 site
- Kinnella medlicotti1 site
- Leptaena (Leptaena) trifidum1 site
- Leptaena rugosa1 site
- Lingulella1 site
- Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus1 site
- Orbiculoidea1 site
- Plectothyrella crassicosta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Rafinesquina urbicola, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Rafinesquina urbicola was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Rafinesquina urbicola, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rafinesquina urbicola was found in Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itRafinesquina through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marek and Havlíček 1967