Rhopalocanium ornatum
No picture of Rhopalocanium ornatum 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 Rhopalocanium ornatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhopalocaniumPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
93 occurrences of Rhopalocanium ornatum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
93 occurrencesThese 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 Rhopalocanium ornatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rhopalocanium ornatum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Rhopalocanium ornatum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
88 taxa- Eusyringium85 sites
- Spongatractus pachystylus79 sites
- Thyrsocyrtis (Pentalacorys) triacantha79 sites
- Podocyrtis75 sites
- Podocyrtis (Podocyrtis) papalis71 sites
- Thyrsocyrtis59 sites
- Lithochytris vespertilio58 sites
- Theocyrtis56 sites
- Calocycloma55 sites
- Dorcadospyris48 sites
- Dictyoprora46 sites
- Anthocyrtoma45 sites
- Dictyoprora mongolfieri45 sites
- Zygocircus45 sites
- Cryptocarpium39 sites
- Podocyrtis (Lampterium) sinuosa38 sites
- Sethochytris38 sites
- Zealithapium36 sites
- Lychnocanoma33 sites
- Dictyophimus craticula22 sites
- Podocyrtis (Podocyrtis) diamesa21 sites
- Theocotylissa ficus20 sites
- Lychnocanium15 sites
- Theocotyle venezuelensis15 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 93 sites for Rhopalocanium ornatum, 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
6 references- Site U133136
- Site U133222
- Site U133320
- Site U15077
- Site U15094
- Biostratigraphy of Late Paleocene- Middle Eocene radiolarians and foraminifera from Cyprus4
Each of the 93 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
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No picture of Rhopalocanium ornatum 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 Rhopalocanium ornatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhopalocanium ornatum 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 itRhopalocanium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ehrenberg 1847