Ribeiria australiensis
No picture of Ribeiria australiensis 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 Ribeiria australiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RibeiriaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rostroconchia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rostroconchia
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 499 Mya and 486.85 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ribeiria australiensis on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
2 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
2 formations
- Mungerebar Formation1
- Minaret Formation · Heritage Group1
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The named rock units Ribeiria australiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ribeiria australiensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Ribeiria australiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Apoptopegma craddocki1 site
- Aremellia batteni1 site
- Blackwelderia1 site
- Cermataspis1 site
- Cosminoconella runnegari1 site
- Ellsworthoconus andersoni1 site
- Kirengella pyramidalis1 site
- Knightoconus antarcticus1 site
- Kobayashiella heritagensis1 site
- Matherella antarctica1 site
- Palaeadotes dissidens1 site
- Proconus incertis1 site
- Proplina rutfordi1 site
- Rhyssometopus rhyssometopus1 site
- Scaevogyra thompsoni1 site
- Strepsodiscus splettstoesseri1 site
- Wanwania1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ribeiria australiensis, 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
2 references- Cambrian Mollusca from the Minaret Formation, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica1
- Cambrian and Ordovician rostroconch molluscs from Northern Australia1
Each of the 2 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 Ribeiria australiensis 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 Ribeiria australiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ribeiria australiensis 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 itRibeiria through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pojeta and Runnegar 1976