Rogerella

Rogerella is a small pouch-shaped boring with a slit-like aperture currently produced by acrothoracican barnacles. These crustaceans extrude their legs upwards through the opening for filter-feeding. They are known in the fossil record as borings in carbonate substrates from the Devonian to the Recent.

A picture published with the record for Rogerella. What it shows has not been checked.

Wilson44691 · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
IchnofossilsPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 235 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 15 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 15 occurrencesLate Cretaceous328–320 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences320–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences250–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences163–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–146 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences146–137 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences128–119 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119–111 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences111–102 Mya — about 5 occurrences102–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences318.6 Mya83.6 Mya328 Mya67 Mya

15 occurrences of Rogerella on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

15 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

6 formations

Grès verts helvétiques — 45.99°N, 6.71°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.13°N, 6.78°EToolebuc — 20.00°S, 141.00°EMoenkopi — 37.18°N, 113.22°WMoenkopi — 37.13°N, 113.76°WPortland Limestone — 50.52°N, 2.43°WGolf Course — 33.95°N, 97.12°WEdwards Limestone — 30.27°N, 97.77°W

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The named rock units Rogerella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rogerella and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Rogerella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

252 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Rogerella, 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

8 references

Each of the 15 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 Rogerella

Credit
Wilson44691
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rogerella 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Saint-Seine 1951