Radiolites macroplicatus
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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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Radiolites macroplicatus 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
15 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
5 formations
- Guinea Corn Formation2
- La Mesa Formation1
- Angostura Formation1
- Habana Formation1
- Guinea Corn Fm Formation1
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The named rock units Radiolites macroplicatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Radiolites macroplicatus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Radiolites macroplicatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
94 taxa- Barrettia4 sites
- Biradiolites4 sites
- Bournonia4 sites
- Chiapasella radiolitiformis4 sites
- Praebarrettia4 sites
- Tampsia4 sites
- Titanosarcolites4 sites
- Durania3 sites
- Huasteca ojanchalensis3 sites
- Mitrocaprina3 sites
- Parastroma3 sites
- Plagioptychus agariciformis3 sites
- Plagioptychus trechmanni3 sites
- Trechmannites rudissimus3 sites
- Antillocaprina2 sites
- Aphrodina2 sites
- Coralliochama2 sites
- Granocardium2 sites
- Hippurites2 sites
- Mitrocaprina tschoppi2 sites
- Parastroma guitarti2 sites
- Pholadomya2 sites
- Plagioptychus muellerriedi2 sites
- Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Radiolites macroplicatus, 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
7 references- New observations on the Upper Cretaceous rudists of Chiapas: comparison between american and european faunas and taxonomic implications6
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages3
- Stratigraphy of the Guinea Corn Formation (Upper Cretaceous) at its type locality in the Rio Minho between Grantham and Guinea Corn, northern Clarendon, Jamaica2
- Rudists of Mexico: Historical Aspects and Selected Areas of Research1
- Revision of the Upper Cretaceous rudists from northwestern Peru1
- Notas sobre rudistas [Notes about rudists]1
- On a new Brachyurous Crustacean from the Upper Cretaceous of Jamaica1
Each of the 15 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
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No picture of Radiolites macroplicatus 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 Radiolites macroplicatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Radiolites macroplicatus 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 itRadiolites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Whitfield 1987)