Radiolites austinensis
No picture of Radiolites austinensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Radiolites austinensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RadiolitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hippuritida
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Radiolites austinensis on record, most of them in the Late 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- Late 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Radiolites austinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Radiolites austinensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Radiolites austinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Baculites anceps3 sites
- Baculites asper2 sites
- Exogyra ponderosa2 sites
- Hamites torquatus2 sites
- Veniella conradi2 sites
- Exogyra ponderosa erraticostata1 site
- Flemingostrea cretacea1 site
- Gryphaea aucella1 site
- Gyrodes abyssinus1 site
- Hardouinia mortonis1 site
- Lima (Lima) pelagica1 site
- Neithea (Neitheops) quinquecostata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Radiolites austinensis, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Radiolites austinensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Radiolites austinensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Radiolites austinensis 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 itRadiolites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roemer 1852