Rugitela hippopus
No picture of Rugitela hippopus 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 Rugitela hippopus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RugitelaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Zeilleriidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 43 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Rugitela hippopus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
7 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Palnatokes Bjerg Formation2
- Claxby Ironstone Formation1
- Claxby Beds Formation · Tealby Series Group1
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The named rock units Rugitela hippopus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rugitela hippopus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Rugitela hippopus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Delphinites (Pseudogarnieria) christenseni2 sites
- Lacunosella groenlandica1 site
- Lamellaerhynchia walkeri1 site
- Myophorella1 site
- Nucleata1 site
- Placothyris kegeli1 site
- Polyptychites1 site
- Pygope janitor1 site
- Rhynchonella speetonensis1 site
- Rugitela rugosa1 site
- Tollia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Rugitela hippopus, 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- Some Lower Cretaceous Terebratelloidea5
- Early Cretaceous brachiopods from North-East Greenland: Biofacies and biogeography2
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Rugitela hippopus 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 Rugitela hippopus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rugitela hippopus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRugitela through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roemer 1840)