Rugobela

Rugobela is a genus of minute gastropod molluscs belonging to the superfamily Conoidea, currently unassigned to a family. The genus is a fossil taxon, known to occur between the Eocene and the Miocene, and has been found in fossil beds in Australia and New Zealand.

Rugobela

Auckland War Memorial Museum · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RaphitomidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 13.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.04 Mya.

Eocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 13 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 13 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41.03 Mya13.05 Mya48.8 Mya10.3 Mya

13 occurrences of Rugobela on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

13 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

7 formations

Rifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EOtekaike Limestone — 45.79°S, 170.51°EOtekaike Limestone — 44.84°S, 170.52°EStillwater Mudstone — 42.47°S, 171.18°EWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°EBroken River — 44.52°S, 170.93°EWaikareka Volcanic — 44.64°S, 171.01°EIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.28°E

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

Rugobela and its relatives

Miocene

Where Rugobela and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

123 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Rugobela, 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

Each of the 13 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 Rugobela

Credit
Auckland War Memorial Museum
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rugobela 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRaphitomidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Finlay 1924