Rotalites
No picture of Rotalites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Rotalites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProporidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 3.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Rotalites on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Rotalites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rotalites and its relatives
SilurianWhere Rotalites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Astroviella2 sites
- Atrypa2 sites
- Cephalopoda2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Dalejina hybrida2 sites
- Delthyris2 sites
- Dolerorthis rustica2 sites
- Fistulipora2 sites
- Hennigopora2 sites
- Levenea canaliculata2 sites
- Orthopora2 sites
- Protochonetes2 sites
- Salopina submedia2 sites
- Anomalotoechus1 site
- Astroviellina1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Atrypoidea1 site
- Barrandeolites1 site
- Coniproetus1 site
- Cyphotrypa1 site
- Dalejina1 site
- Dayia1 site
- Eostenopora1 site
- Eridotrypella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Rotalites, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Rotalites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Rotalites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rotalites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProporidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leleshus 1974