Rastellum

Rastellum is a genus of extinct molluscs, which lived from the Middle Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous.

Rastellum

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
ArctostreinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Ostreida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ostreida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Ostreida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 6 of 171 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 12 of 171 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 67 of 171 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 86 of 171 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 171 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences163–160 Mya — about 4 occurrences160–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 4 occurrences153–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–145 Mya — about 2 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 1 occurrence142–138 Mya — about 2 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 4 occurrences135–131 Mya — about 4 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 2 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 4 occurrences121–117 Mya — about 7 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 7 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 5 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 3 occurrences106–103 Mya — about 16 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 14 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 9 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 7 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 11 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 31 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 13 occurrences165.3 Mya72.2 Mya170 Mya64 Mya

171 occurrences of Rastellum on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

171 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

44 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.87°N, 89.00°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.46°N, 88.79°WPrairie Bluff — 33.15°N, 88.67°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 32.73°N, 88.30°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.16°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.78°WDenton — 32.83°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.15°N, 97.23°WDenton — 33.35°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.37°N, 97.18°WDenton — 33.52°N, 97.17°WDenton — 33.72°N, 97.17°WEnokuchi — 32.31°N, 130.34°EEnokuchi — 32.35°N, 130.37°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.22°N, 0.82°WGrès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.98°N, 6.78°EPeruc-Korycany — 49.98°N, 15.60°ECorsicana Marl — 33.10°N, 95.99°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.54°WHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EGalala — 30.38°N, 33.52°EGalala — 29.28°N, 34.72°EAzilé — 0.30°N, 9.51°EAzilé — 0.39°N, 9.48°ESandgate — 51.67°N, 1.58°WSandgate — 51.35°N, 2.08°WHajar — 14.30°N, 48.49°ESevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WRoca — 35.47°S, 69.60°WRoca — 35.70°S, 69.67°WChoshi — 35.72°N, 140.82°EYatsushiro — 32.50°N, 130.75°EYatsushiro — 32.50°N, 130.68°EIshido — 36.25°N, 138.67°EIshido — 36.07°N, 138.83°EHiraiga — 40.00°N, 141.83°EHiraiga — 39.94°N, 141.94°ECoquina — 52.41°N, 21.85°ECoquina — 50.81°N, 20.26°EMaastricht — 51.00°N, 6.00°EFerruginous Sands — 50.63°N, 1.17°WAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WMadbi — 14.27°N, 48.57°EShuqra — 14.32°N, 48.45°E

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The named rock units Rastellum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 60 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rastellum and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Rastellum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,491 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 137 sites for Rastellum, 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

56 references

Each of the 171 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. 44 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 content2

Picture of Rastellum

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itArctostreinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Faujas de Saint Fond 1799