Raniliformis baltica
No picture of Raniliformis baltica 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 Raniliformis baltica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RaniliformisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Raninoidia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Raniliformis baltica on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
3 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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 Raniliformis baltica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Raniliformis baltica and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Raniliformis baltica and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Caloxanthus ornatus1 site
- Dromiopsis rugosus1 site
- Latheticocarcinus affinis1 site
- Latheticocarcinus spinigus1 site
- Protomunida bennickei1 site
- Protomunida eurekantha1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Raniliformis baltica, 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
3 references- Systematics of 12 Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Paleogene squat lobster taxa (Galatheoidea)1
- A new raninid crab, Pseudorogueus rangiferus (Decapoda, Crustacea), from the Eocene of Spain1
- A new Early Paleocene genus of raninid crab (Crustacea, Decapoda) from Denmark, Southern Sweden and the Netherlands1
Each of the 3 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 Raniliformis baltica 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 Raniliformis baltica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Raniliformis baltica 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 itRaniliformis through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Segerberg 1900)