Ruedemannia robusta

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RuedemanniaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Murchisoniina
- Environment
- coastal,marinePBDB, for Murchisoniina
Time the record covers
At least 1.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 421.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
3 occurrences of Ruedemannia robusta 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Ruedemannia robusta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ruedemannia robusta and its relatives
SilurianWhere Ruedemannia robusta and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Cyrtostropha coralli2 sites
- Arctinurus1 site
- Bellerophon ledburiensis1 site
- Bumastus cuniculus1 site
- Bumastus dayi1 site
- Bumastus niagarensis1 site
- Bumastus tenuis1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Centrifugus planorbis1 site
- Ceratocephala goniata1 site
- Conotoma bispiralis1 site
- Cyrtospira ventricosus1 site
- Dalmanites1 site
- Deiphon1 site
- Dicranopeltis1 site
- Dudleyaspis1 site
- Encrinurus reflexus1 site
- Euomphalopterus alatus1 site
- Hadromeros1 site
- Hormotoma piperi1 site
- Illaenidae1 site
- Isfarispira perlata1 site
- Loxoplocus gothlandicus1 site
- Oriostoma globosum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ruedemannia robusta, 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 3 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
Media content1

Picture of Ruedemannia robusta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Ruedemannia robusta 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 itRuedemannia through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lindström 1884)