Rhizomorina

No picture of Rhizomorina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhizomorina itself, so it was not used. 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 Rhizomorina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SpirosclerophoridaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lithistida

Time the record covers

At least 485 million years on record.

The record covers at least 497 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 894 occurrencesOrdovician — about 8 of 894 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 10 of 894 occurrencesDevonian — about 5 of 894 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 23 of 894 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 58 of 894 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 894 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 894 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 894 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 894 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 12 of 894 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 462 of 894 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 21 of 894 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 252 of 894 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 894 occurrencesEocene — about 14 of 894 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 894 occurrencesMiocene — about 26 of 894 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 894 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 894 occurrences516–499 Mya — about 1 occurrence499–482 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences465–448 Mya — about 7 occurrences448–430 Mya — about 3 occurrences430–413 Mya — about 9 occurrences413–396 Mya — about 3 occurrences396–379 Mya — about 1 occurrence362–344 Mya — about 5 occurrences344–327 Mya — about 10 occurrences327–310 Mya — about 6 occurrences310–293 Mya — about 7 occurrences293–275 Mya — about 17 occurrences275–258 Mya — about 19 occurrences258–241 Mya — about 18 occurrences241–224 Mya — about 1 occurrence172–155 Mya — about 374 occurrences155–138 Mya — about 101 occurrences138–121 Mya — about 3 occurrences121–103 Mya — about 17 occurrences103–86 Mya — about 70 occurrences86–69 Mya — about 179 occurrences69–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–34 Mya — about 14 occurrences34–17 Mya — about 9 occurrences17–0 Mya — about 17 occurrences497 Mya11.63 Mya516 Mya0 Mya

894 occurrences of Rhizomorina on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

894 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

61 formations

Jasna Gora — 50.07°N, 19.62°EJasna Gora — 50.45°N, 19.52°EJasna Gora — 50.42°N, 19.35°EJasna Gora — 50.73°N, 19.13°EIlsenburg — 51.90°N, 10.67°EIlsenburg — 51.83°N, 10.78°EKapp Starostin — 77.03°N, 16.20°EKapp Starostin — 77.71°N, 14.69°EKapp Starostin — 78.08°N, 13.80°E"Siphonia Marl" — 51.92°N, 10.47°EZawodzie — 50.82°N, 19.13°EZawodzie — 50.43°N, 19.55°EZawodzie — 50.47°N, 19.55°EBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°EAhlen — 51.75°N, 8.03°EAhlen — 51.77°N, 8.05°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.93°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.85°E"Scaphiten-Pläner" — 52.15°N, 10.15°EChiampo — 45.53°N, 11.25°E"Cuvieri-Pläner" — 52.07°N, 10.25°E"Cuvieri-Pläner" — 52.15°N, 10.32°ECalcaires Lites — 45.78°N, 5.52°ECouches de Birmensdorf — 46.25°N, 5.67°EMalongulli — 33.58°S, 148.89°EGreat Bear Cape — 77.61°N, 86.38°WGreat Bear Cape — 78.40°N, 85.60°WGreat Bear Cape — 78.10°N, 85.75°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WEdwardsville — 39.15°N, 86.40°WCabeca — 37.12°N, 8.18°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.88°WCabeca — 37.15°N, 7.75°WPatcham — 23.70°N, 69.05°ELas Delicias — 26.40°N, 102.94°WNeal Ranch — 30.36°N, 103.13°WCape Phillips — 75.75°N, 94.40°WDouro — 73.93°N, 92.10°WDouro — 72.59°N, 93.77°WGarra — 32.58°S, 148.95°ENeuburger Weiß — 48.73°N, 11.18°ERoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°W

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The named rock units Rhizomorina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 399 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhizomorina and its relatives

Late Jurassic

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

Found in the same rock

2,474 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 179 sites for Rhizomorina, 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

74 references

Each of the 894 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. 62 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 content0

No picture of Rhizomorina was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhizomorina itself, so it was not used.

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 Rhizomorina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhizomorina 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 itSpirosclerophorida through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1875