Ruggieria
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PterygocythereidinaePBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At least 32 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 13.82 Mya.
24 occurrences of Ruggieria on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
24 occurrencesThese 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 Ruggieria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ruggieria and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ruggieria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
85 taxa- Cytherella10 sites
- Bairdia7 sites
- Loxoconcha7 sites
- Paracytheridea7 sites
- Aurila6 sites
- Costa6 sites
- Sagmatocythere6 sites
- Buntonia5 sites
- Cytheropteron5 sites
- Loxocorniculum5 sites
- Xestoleberis5 sites
- Callistocythere4 sites
- Carinovalva rotundata4 sites
- Cnestocythere4 sites
- Cytherella vulgata4 sites
- Eucytherura4 sites
- Grinioneis haidingeri4 sites
- Heliocythere vejhonensis4 sites
- Semicytherura4 sites
- Ambostracon3 sites
- Argilloecia3 sites
- Australileberis sp.3 sites
- Australoecia3 sites
- Bairdoppilata3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Ruggieria, 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
5 references- Preliminary stratigraphical investigations of the Miocene successions of the Porto Torres Basin (northern Sardinia, Italy)9
- Les ostracodes paleogènes du Togo: Taxonomie, biostratigraphie, apports dans l'organisation et l'évolution du bassin5
- Palaeo-oceanographical implications of Early-Middle Miocene subtropical ostracod faunas from the continental shelf of the SE Atlantic Ocean4
- Some Ruggieria-like ostracods from the Tertiary and Recent of west Africa4
- Ostracoda and Foraminifera assemblages of the Lower-Middle Miocene reefal carbonates within the Değirmençay Area, NW Mersin/S Turkey2
Each of the 24 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 content1
Picture of Ruggieria
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ruggieria 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 itPterygocythereidinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.