Rorringtonia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RorringtoniidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Rorringtoniidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 25 of 26 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 26 occurrencesSilurian462–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 1 occurrence455–454 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 3 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 3 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 3 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 1 occurrence444–443 Mya — about 1 occurrence441–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya440.5 Mya461.7 Mya432.3 Mya

26 occurrences of Rorringtonia on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

26 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

12 formations

Kraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKraluv Dvur — 50.05°N, 14.46°EKraluv Dvur — 49.92°N, 14.21°EKraluv Dvur — 50.04°N, 14.41°ECystoid Limestone — 41.00°N, 1.00°WCystoid Limestone — 41.15°N, 1.18°WCystoid Limestone — 41.17°N, 1.15°WLindegård — 56.00°N, 13.29°EBalclatchie — 55.24°N, 4.78°WLlanfawr Mudstone — 52.24°N, 3.36°WArnestad — 60.00°N, 11.00°EChasmops Shale — 59.88°N, 10.51°ELindegård Mudstone — 55.53°N, 14.23°EKallholn — 61.17°N, 14.71°EHendre Shale — 51.88°N, 4.94°WChedao — 36.08°N, 106.75°EMydrim Shales — 51.85°N, 4.84°W

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The named rock units Rorringtonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rorringtonia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rorringtonia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

379 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Rorringtonia, 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

16 references

Each of the 26 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. 4 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 Rorringtonia 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 Rorringtonia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rorringtonia 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 itRorringtoniidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whittard 1966