Rhipidogyra

Rhipidogyra

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhipidogyrinaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Rhipidogyridae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhipidogyridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhipidogyridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rhipidogyridae

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 66 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 55 of 66 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 10 of 66 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–161 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 1 occurrence160–159 Mya — about 1 occurrence159–158 Mya — about 6 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 5 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 4 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 4 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 5 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 5 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 2 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 4 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 5 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–138 Mya — about 1 occurrence138–136 Mya — about 2 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 2 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 2 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences157.9 Mya137.05 Mya166 Mya131.9 Mya

66 occurrences of Rhipidogyra on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

66 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

17 formations

Slivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°EKorallenoolith — 52.15°N, 9.98°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.57°EAbadia — 38.93°N, 9.00°WAbadia — 39.02°N, 9.08°WKorond — 34.17°N, 56.83°ELower Monte Bardia — 40.27°N, 9.62°ECabeca — 37.15°N, 7.75°WSao Romao — 37.15°N, 7.93°WErnstbrunn — 48.87°N, 16.67°EAmaral — 39.00°N, 9.18°WSidi Kralif — 35.43°N, 9.78°ESwarzow Limestone — 50.23°N, 20.93°ELalla Oujja — 30.57°N, 9.60°WOehrli — 47.38°N, 9.73°EEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°ESierra del Pozo — 37.85°N, 2.91°W

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The named rock units Rhipidogyra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhipidogyra and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Rhipidogyra and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

853 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Rhipidogyra, 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

31 references

Each of the 66 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. 19 further references are not listed. 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 Rhipidogyra

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

No 3D scan of Rhipidogyra 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 itRhipidogyrinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848