Rorringtonia ursina

No picture of Rorringtonia ursina 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 ursina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RorringtoniaPBDB
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 most 1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 457.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Rorringtonia ursina 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

1 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

1 formation

Chasmops Shale — 59.88°N, 10.51°E

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

Rorringtonia ursina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rorringtonia ursina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Rorringtonia ursina, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Rorringtonia ursina 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 ursina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rorringtonia ursina 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Owens 1970)