Raphaelia

Raphaelia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FilicalesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 164 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 3 of 164 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 27 of 164 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 76 of 164 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 55 of 164 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 164 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 164 occurrences240–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–226 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences226–221 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences221–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–211 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences211–207 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences207–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences192–188 Mya — about 5 occurrences188–183 Mya — about 6 occurrences183–178 Mya — about 7 occurrences178–173 Mya — about 12 occurrences173–169 Mya — about 31 occurrences169–164 Mya — about 27 occurrences164–159 Mya — about 17 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 12 occurrences155–150 Mya — about 11 occurrences150–145 Mya — about 18 occurrences145–140 Mya — about 9 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 1 occurrence136–131 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences131–126 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences205.7 Mya149.2 Mya240 Mya98 Mya

164 occurrences of Raphaelia on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

164 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

83 formations

Lower Vilyui and Marykchan Suites — 64.00°N, 127.30°ELower Vilyui and Marykchan Suites — 64.60°N, 125.70°ELower Vilyui and Marykchan Suites — 63.50°N, 118.80°ELower Vilyui and Marykchan Suites — 63.80°N, 121.60°ELower Saldam Suite — 51.80°N, 94.50°ELower Saldam Suite — 51.70°N, 94.40°ELower Saldam Suite — 51.50°N, 94.10°EBerge Suite — 64.50°N, 125.80°EBerge Suite — 64.90°N, 124.60°EBerge Suite — 63.50°N, 118.80°EBerge Suite — 63.60°N, 119.80°ESaldam Suite — 51.70°N, 94.40°ESaldam Suite — 52.50°N, 96.10°EUpper Dep Suite — 52.90°N, 127.60°EUpper Dep Suite — 53.10°N, 127.30°EUpper Dep Suite — 53.10°N, 127.90°EShoptykol' Suite — 51.10°N, 75.60°EErbek Suite — 51.60°N, 94.20°ELower Osinniki and Tersyuk Suites — 54.50°N, 87.00°ECheremkhovo Suite — 52.60°N, 104.00°ELower Dzhaskoi Suite — 66.70°N, 123.30°EDzhaskoi Suite — 63.70°N, 118.10°EUpper Talyndzhak Suite — 51.30°N, 132.60°EUpper Talyndzhak Suite — 51.20°N, 133.10°EPrisayan Suite — 52.60°N, 104.50°EUpper Cheremkhovo Suite — 52.60°N, 104.00°ETaipingchuan — 47.20°N, 123.00°EWanbao — 45.30°N, 122.80°EHuzige — 45.30°N, 122.80°EBoroldai and Kashkara Suites — 43.00°N, 70.00°EOzhogino Suite — 66.40°N, 149.50°EOzhogino Suite — 66.10°N, 148.90°EBorodino Suite — 55.80°N, 94.90°EBorodino Suite — 55.80°N, 94.80°ETersyuk Suite — 54.50°N, 87.40°EOsinniki and Tersyuk Suites — 54.50°N, 87.00°EDep Suite — 52.90°N, 127.70°EChechuma Suite — 64.20°N, 126.40°E

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The named rock units Raphaelia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 59 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Raphaelia and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Raphaelia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

167 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 113 sites for Raphaelia, 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

59 references

Each of the 164 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. 47 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 Raphaelia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Debey and Ettingshausen 1859