Rastelligera
Searched as Rastelligera diomedea diomedea. The Paleobiology Database treats Rastelligera as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RastelligerinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 217 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
15 occurrences of Rastelligera on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
15 occurrences- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassic99%
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.
Rastelligera and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Rastelligera and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
89 taxa- Callospiriferina kawhiana7 sites
- Sakawairhynchia marokopana7 sites
- Metastenodiscus zealandicus6 sites
- Clavigera5 sites
- Torastarte bensoni5 sites
- Arcticopora lobatula4 sites
- Fissirhynchia pacifica4 sites
- Hectoria bisulcata4 sites
- Pleurotomaria hectori4 sites
- Eoheteropora3 sites
- Zugmayerella taringaturaensis3 sites
- Arcestes2 sites
- Cenoceras trechmanni2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Dielasma2 sites
- Kalentera2 sites
- Kalentera marwicki2 sites
- Lobothyris richardsi2 sites
- Maoritrigonia2 sites
- Ochotomya2 sites
- Otapiria dissimilis2 sites
- Oxytoma2 sites
- Paraconularia matauraensis2 sites
- Parallelodon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Rastelligera, 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
1 referenceEach of the 15 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
Media content1
Picture of Rastelligera
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Rastelligera 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 itRastelligerinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.