Rafanoglossa

Rafanoglossa

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
ObolinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Obolidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Obolidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Obolidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Lingulata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 51 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 8 of 9 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 9 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 9 occurrencesDevonian478–476 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences476–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–445 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences416–414 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences471.3 Mya419.62 Mya478 Mya412 Mya

9 occurrences of Rafanoglossa on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

9 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

8 formations

Klabava — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKlabava — 49.75°N, 13.80°EKraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELochkow — 49.98°N, 14.33°ELa Maurerie — 43.46°N, 3.00°ESetso — 43.00°N, 3.00°ECouches du Foulon — 43.00°N, 3.00°ELandeyran — 43.47°N, 3.08°ESuri — 28.75°S, 67.82°W

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

Rafanoglossa and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Rafanoglossa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

186 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Rafanoglossa, 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 9 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 Rafanoglossa

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itObolinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Havlicek 1980