Rugatotheca typica
No picture of Rugatotheca typica 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 typica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RugatothecaPBDB
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.
3 occurrences of Rugatotheca typica 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
3 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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 Rugatotheca typica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rugatotheca typica and its relatives
CambrianWhere Rugatotheca typica and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Aetholicopalla adnata2 sites
- Arthrochites emeishanensis2 sites
- Carinachites curvatornatus2 sites
- Ganloudina symmetrica2 sites
- Olivooides multisulcatus2 sites
- Protohertzina unguliformis2 sites
- Quadrosiphogonuchites2 sites
- Anabarites trisulcatus1 site
- Coleloides sp.1 site
- Hexaconularia1 site
- Olivooides1 site
- Paracanthodus1 site
- Protohertzina anabarica1 site
- Siphogonuchites triangularis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rugatotheca typica, 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
2 references- Terreneuvian bio- and chemostratigraphy of the South Sichuan Region (South China)2
- A restudy of some Early Cambrian small shelly fossils from Ganluo and Emei, Sichuan, southwest China1
Each 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. 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 typica 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 typica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rugatotheca typica 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 itRugatotheca through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. He 1980