Rucinolithus wisei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RucinolithusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
- Life habit
- planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
- Environment
- oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 78 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
50 occurrences of Rucinolithus wisei 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
50 occurrences- Early Cretaceous99%
- Late Cretaceousunder 1%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Rucinolithus wisei 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.
Rucinolithus wisei and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Rucinolithus wisei and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Calcicalathina28 sites
- Percivalia fenestrata27 sites
- Calpionellopsis19 sites
- Tintinnopsella19 sites
- Fauriella boissieri18 sites
- Neolissoceras grasianum18 sites
- Tubodiscus jurapelagicus17 sites
- Percivalia16 sites
- Lorenziella15 sites
- Remaniella15 sites
- Tubodiscus verenae15 sites
- Tirnovella alpillensis14 sites
- Berriasella calisto12 sites
- Olcostephanus12 sites
- Speetonia colligata12 sites
- Protancyloceras11 sites
- Thurmanniceras10 sites
- Spiticeras multiforme9 sites
- Calpionella alpina8 sites
- Kilianella8 sites
- Leptoceras studeri7 sites
- Thurmanniceras pertransiens7 sites
- Praecalpionellites6 sites
- Tirnovella6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Rucinolithus wisei, 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
2 references- The Berriasian/Valanginian boundary in the Mediterranean region: new data from the Caravaca and Cehegin sections, SE Spain49
- Site U13491
Each of the 50 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 content0
No picture of Rucinolithus wisei was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rucinolithus wisei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itRucinolithus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thierstein 1971