Ruedemannia tolli

Lodjak · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
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 most 6.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.5 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ruedemannia tolli 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Ruedemannia tolli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ruedemannia tolli and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ruedemannia tolli and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Cyclonema rupestre2 sites
- Eocryptaenia singularis2 sites
- Palaeomphalus obtusangulus2 sites
- Ruedemannia borkholmiensis2 sites
- Angulospira striata1 site
- Anoptambonites williamsi1 site
- Bitrigonocardia isbergi1 site
- Bodospira kallholniensis1 site
- Bodospira undulata1 site
- Cataschisma nitida1 site
- Christiania dalarnensis1 site
- Cyclonema canaliculata1 site
- Danoceras scandinavicum1 site
- Dawsonoceras fenestratum1 site
- Decoroproetus asellus1 site
- Drabovia minuta1 site
- Ectomaria nieszkowskii1 site
- Eostropheodonta luna1 site
- Eremiproetus agellus1 site
- Eriditidae1 site
- Graciloceratidae1 site
- Gunnarella magnifica1 site
- Helicotoma superba1 site
- Holopea filosus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ruedemannia tolli, 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- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
- Die Gastropoden des baltischen Untersilurs1
Each 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
Media content1

Picture of Ruedemannia tolli
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Lodjak
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Ruedemannia tolli 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 OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koken 1897)