Regadrella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EuplectellidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lyssacinosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lyssacinosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lyssacinosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida
Time the record covers
At least 82 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
6 occurrences of Regadrella on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous50%
- Eocene17%
- Miocene33%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Regadrella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Regadrella and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Regadrella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
215 taxa- Aphrocallistes2 sites
- Hexactinella2 sites
- Acoelocalyx1 site
- Acrochordonia auricula1 site
- Acrochordonia ramosa1 site
- Amphilectella piriformis1 site
- Amphithelion (Amphithelion) macrommata1 site
- Amphithelion cupula1 site
- Andreaea1 site
- Andreaea hexagonalis1 site
- Aphrocallistes alveolites1 site
- Aphrocallistes cylindrodactylus1 site
- Astrocladia subramosa1 site
- Aulaxinia fallax1 site
- Aulaxinia sulcifera1 site
- Auloplax spongiosus1 site
- Aulosoma radiciformis1 site
- Balantionella elegans1 site
- Becksia arborea1 site
- Becksia augustae1 site
- Becksia feuerwehri1 site
- Bolitesia mirabilis1 site
- Botroclonium arborescens1 site
- Brachiolites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Regadrella, 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
5 references- Les spongiaires siliceux du Tortonien des Betiques (Miocene de l'Espagne du Sud): especes nouvelles ou peu connues, II: Hexactinellides [Tortonian siliceous sponges from the Betics (Miocene of southern Spain): new or little known species, II: Hexactinellida]2
- Taxonomy and paleoecology of lyssacinosan Hexactinellida from the Upper Cretaceous (Coniacian) of Bornholm, Denmark, in comparison with other Postpaleozoic representatives1
- Eocene siliceous sponges from the Ebro Basin (Catalonia, Spain)1
- Hexactinellid faunas in the chalk of England and Ireland1
- Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida) [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida)]1
Each of the 6 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
Media content1
Picture of Regadrella
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Regadrella 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.
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What may have been alongside itEuplectellidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schmidt 1880