Rastelligera

Rastelligera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RastelligerinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 60 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 60 of 60 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 60 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 1 occurrence220–219 Mya — about 2 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 2 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 1 occurrence216–214 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 1 occurrence209–208 Mya — about 1 occurrence208–206 Mya — about 1 occurrence206–205 Mya — about 10 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 14 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 14 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 6 occurrences227.3 Mya205.7 Mya242.3 Mya200.6 Mya

60 occurrences of Rastelligera on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

60 occurrences

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

5 formations

Ngutunui — 38.30°S, 174.70°ENgutunui — 38.67°S, 174.69°EBouraké — 22.03°S, 166.05°EBouraké — 22.01°S, 166.05°EOuamoui — 21.74°S, 165.68°EJiapila — 31.34°N, 98.14°ELeprédour Shellbed — 22.05°S, 166.08°E

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The named rock units Rastelligera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 49 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rastelligera and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Rastelligera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

89 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Rastelligera, 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

7 references

Each of the 60 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 content1

Picture of Rastelligera

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 itRastelligerinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.