Ringicula mississippiensis

Ringicula mississippiensis

C.R. Orcutt · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RingiculaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ringicula
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ringiculidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ringiculidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 6.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 0 of 40 occurrencesOligocene — about 40 of 40 occurrencesOligocene34–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34.4 Mya26.8 Mya

40 occurrences of Ringicula mississippiensis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

40 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

4 formations

Byram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WByram — 31.97°N, 89.43°WByram — 32.40°N, 90.87°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WByram Marl — 32.32°N, 90.88°W

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

Ringicula mississippiensis and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Ringicula mississippiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

342 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Ringicula mississippiensis, 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

4 references

Each of the 40 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

Media content1

Picture of Ringicula mississippiensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
C.R. Orcutt
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRingicula through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1848