Raniganjia bengalensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RaniganjiaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Raniganjia bengalensis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
5 occurrences- Permian100%
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
4 formations
- Raniganj Formation2
- Rangal Coal Measures Formation · Blackwater Group1
- Kamthi Formation1
- Pachwara Formation1
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The named rock units Raniganjia bengalensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Raniganjia bengalensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Raniganjia bengalensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
263 taxa- Asansolia phegopteroides3 sites
- Glossopteris3 sites
- Glossopteris angustifolia3 sites
- Glossopteris indica3 sites
- Glossopteris retifera3 sites
- Neomariopteris hughesi3 sites
- Schizoneura gondwanensis3 sites
- Trizygia speciosa3 sites
- Dichotomopteris ovata2 sites
- Glossopteris communis2 sites
- Glossopteris conspicua2 sites
- Glossopteris emarginata2 sites
- Glossopteris intermedia2 sites
- Glossopteris intermittens2 sites
- Glossopteris nimishea2 sites
- Glossopteris rhabdotaenioides2 sites
- Glossopteris vulgaris2 sites
- Lelstotheca robusta2 sites
- Neomariopteris lobifolia2 sites
- Phyllotheca griesbachii2 sites
- Phyllotheca indica2 sites
- Plumsteadia2 sites
- Samaropsis2 sites
- Sphenopteris polymorpha2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Raniganjia bengalensis, 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- A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils2
- A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants2
- Late Permian Plant Megafossils from the Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia: Part 11
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Raniganjia bengalensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Raniganjia bengalensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Raniganjia bengalensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itRaniganjia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Feistmantel 1876)