Retzia compressa
No picture of Retzia compressa 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 Retzia compressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RetziaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Retziidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Retziidina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Retziidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 293.52 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Retzia compressa on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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 Retzia compressa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Retzia compressa and its relatives
PermianWhere Retzia compressa and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Clisiophyllum gabbi1 site
- Dictyoclostus semireticulatus1 site
- Durhamina sublaeve1 site
- Fusulina cylindrica1 site
- Lithostrotion1 site
- Omphalotrochus whitneyi1 site
- Paraheritschioides californiense1 site
- Pseudoschwagerina robusta1 site
- Reticularia lineata1 site
- Rhipidomella carbonaria1 site
- Rhynchonella1 site
- Spiriferellina cristata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Retzia compressa, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Retzia compressa 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 Retzia compressa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Retzia compressa 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 itRetzia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1864