Raphidonema macropora
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RaphidonemaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Calcaronea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Calcarea
Time the record covers
At most 78 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 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 Raphidonema macropora on record, most of them in the Early 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 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
1 formation
- Sandgate Formation · Lower Greensand Group1
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The named rock units Raphidonema macropora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Raphidonema macropora and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Raphidonema macropora and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
90 taxa- Raphidonema porcatum4 sites
- Barroisia2 sites
- Corynella foraminosa2 sites
- Elasmocoelia mantelli2 sites
- Oculospongia dilatata2 sites
- Raphidonema contortum2 sites
- Raphidonema farringdonense2 sites
- Raphidonema pustulatum2 sites
- Synopella pulvinaria2 sites
- Tremacystia anastomans2 sites
- Tremacystia clavata2 sites
- Tremacystia irregularis2 sites
- Actinostromaria faringdonensis1 site
- Anglonautilus undulatus1 site
- Arenaciarcula fittoni1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Astrocoenia1 site
- Barbatia1 site
- Berenicea1 site
- Bifolium1 site
- Brightonia1 site
- Burgundia1 site
- Cellulipora1 site
- Ceriopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Raphidonema macropora, 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
2 references- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand2
- Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History)2
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
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No picture of Raphidonema macropora 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 Raphidonema macropora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Raphidonema macropora 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.
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What may have been alongside itRaphidonema through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sharpe 1854)