Rhaiphiale pharota

Rhaiphiale pharota

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhaiphialePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 4.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Cretaceous94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–90 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94.4 Mya89.3 Mya

1 occurrence of Rhaiphiale pharota 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

1 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

1 formation

Ladd — 33.72°N, 117.63°W

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The named rock units Rhaiphiale pharota has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Rhaiphiale pharota and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Rhaiphiale pharota and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Rhaiphiale pharota, 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 reference

Each 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 content1

Picture of Rhaiphiale pharota

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhaiphiale pharota 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 itRhaiphiale through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Saul 1993