Rugitela rugosa
No picture of Rugitela rugosa was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 rugosa, 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 125.77 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Rugitela rugosa 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Rugitela rugosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rugitela rugosa and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Rugitela rugosa and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Lamellaerhynchia rostriformis1 site
- Myophorella1 site
- Oblongarcula1 site
- Oblongarcula oblonga1 site
- Praelongithyris1 site
- Psilothyris1 site
- Psilothyris tamarindus1 site
- Rugitela hippopus1 site
- Rugitela roemeri1 site
- Sellithyris carteroniana1 site
- Sellithyris sella1 site
- Terebratulidina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rugitela rugosa, 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 Terebratelloidea3
- Lower Cretaceous Terebratulidina of Northern England and Germany and their geological background1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Rugitela rugosa was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 rugosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rugitela rugosa was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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. Owen 1965