Kraussina rubra

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- KraussinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Kraussinidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Kraussinidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Kraussinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Kraussina rubra on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene50%
- Pliocene38%
- Pleistocene12%
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
- Alexander Bay Formation4
- Varswater Formation · Sandveld Group2
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The named rock units Kraussina rubra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Cancellothyris platys2 sites
- Kraussina rotundata2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) obliquata1 site
- Bullia1 site
- Carcharhinus limbatus1 site
- Carcharhinus melanopterus1 site
- Carcharodon1 site
- Cellana1 site
- Cellana capensis1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Chersina langebaanwegi1 site
- Cirripedia1 site
- Clavatula1 site
- Crassispira1 site
- Dege hendeyi1 site
- Diodara parviforata1 site
- Donax1 site
- Donax serra1 site
- Galeorhinus1 site
- Haliotis1 site
- Haliotis saldanhae1 site
- Hippotherium primigenium1 site
- Homiphoca capensis1 site
- Inguza predemersus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Kraussina rubra, 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
3 references- Late Cainozoic Brachiopods from the coast of Namaqualand, South Africa4
- Preliminary report on the fossil avian remains from late Tertiary sediments at Langebaanweg (Cape Province), South Africa1
- Pliocene marine invertebrates from Langebaanweg, Cape Province1
Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Kraussina rubra
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Kraussina rubra was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
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What may have been alongside itKraussina through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pallas 1766)