Radiolitidae

Radiolitidae is a family of rudists in the order Hippuritida.

Radiolitidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RadiolitoideaPBDB
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 least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 2489 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 109 of 2489 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2380 of 2489 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 2489 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 7 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 9 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 14 occurrences116–113 Mya — about 14 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 13 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 12 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 14 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 16 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 49 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 77 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 97 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 156 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 122 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 323 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 297 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 142 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 142 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 142 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 310 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 373 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 158 occurrences125.77 Mya72.2 Mya151 Mya64 Mya

2,489 occurrences of Radiolitidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

2,489 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

122 formations

Guinea Corn — 18.12°N, 77.42°WGuinea Corn — 18.16°N, 77.38°WGuinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.25°WVallcarga — 42.03°N, 0.83°ESant Corneli — 42.17°N, 0.90°ESant Corneli — 42.20°N, 1.07°ESant Corneli — 42.03°N, 0.83°EHalal — 30.37°N, 34.45°EHalal — 30.27°N, 33.52°EHalal — 30.37°N, 33.52°EHalal — 30.72°N, 33.48°EHalal — 30.80°N, 33.45°EMilas — 37.38°N, 27.47°EMilas — 37.34°N, 27.56°EMilas — 37.21°N, 27.95°EMilas — 37.14°N, 28.02°EMilas — 37.32°N, 28.18°EMilas — 37.37°N, 28.27°EUgod — 46.98°N, 17.28°ETrieste Karst Limestone — 45.70°N, 13.73°ETrieste Karst Limestone — 45.78°N, 13.65°EHabana — 22.00°N, 79.50°WVrbovac Beds — 43.80°N, 22.08°EGalala — 29.67°N, 34.50°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EGalala — 29.63°N, 34.40°EScaglia Rossa Veneta — 45.62°N, 10.95°ETarbur — 31.58°N, 51.20°ETarbur — 31.72°N, 51.20°ECollades de Basturs — 42.17°N, 0.90°ETemazcal Limestone — 22.33°N, 100.49°WTemazcal Limestone — 22.40°N, 100.51°WTemazcal Limestone — 22.64°N, 100.51°WEl Viejo — 10.60°N, 85.64°WEl Viejo — 10.81°N, 85.64°WEl Viejo — 10.21°N, 85.11°WEl Viejo — 10.39°N, 85.43°WCima delle Murelle — 42.10°N, 14.17°EBourg-des-Maisons — 45.45°N, 0.45°EBourg-des-Maisons — 45.53°N, 0.42°ECiolo Limestone — 40.05°N, 18.43°ECiolo Limestone — 40.03°N, 18.42°ECiolo Limestone — 39.84°N, 18.39°ECiolo Limestone — 39.86°N, 18.39°EWata — 29.67°N, 34.50°EWata — 30.38°N, 33.52°EWata — 29.63°N, 34.40°EZorbehan — 38.83°N, 37.83°EOcozocoautla — 16.75°N, 93.33°WOcozocoautla — 16.78°N, 93.38°WOcozocoautla — 16.89°N, 93.43°WLiburnian — 45.73°N, 14.00°ECesarea Limestone — 40.06°N, 18.43°ECesarea Limestone — 40.05°N, 18.41°ECalizas — 42.40°N, 0.78°W

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The named rock units Radiolitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 98 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1,559 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Radiolitidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Radiolitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,167 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 371 sites for Radiolitidae, and this reads 240 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

217 references

Each of the 2,489 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. 205 further references are not listed. 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 Radiolitidae

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Radiolitidae 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.

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 itRadiolitoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1848