Rugatotheca

Rugatotheca typica is a species of problematic tubular organism of the Cambrian. The species has been reported from China and Iran.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProblematicaPBDB

Time the record covers

At most 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 521 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCambrian539–539 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences539–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–536 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–531 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences531–530 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences530–529 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences529–529 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences527–527 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences526–526 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences539.3 Mya520.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Rugatotheca on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

4 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

3 formations

Maidiping — 29.52°N, 103.41°ESoltanieh — 36.00°N, 51.50°EHongchunping — 29.18°N, 102.87°E

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

Rugatotheca and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Rugatotheca and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rugatotheca, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

3 references

Each of the 4 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

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

No 3D scan of Rugatotheca 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.

The description on this site

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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. He 1980