Reptomulticava flabellum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ReptomulticavaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 89.8 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Reptomulticava flabellum 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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 Reptomulticava flabellum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Reptomulticava flabellum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Reptomulticava flabellum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Bournonia1 site
- Fossulites1 site
- Fossulites dionysii1 site
- Gorjanovicia1 site
- Gorjanovicia boeotica1 site
- Gorjanovicia lipparinii1 site
- Medeella zignana1 site
- Sauvagesia1 site
- Sauvagesia tenuicostata1 site
- Vaccinites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Reptomulticava flabellum, 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
2 references- Cretaceous chaetetids (Porifera: Demospongiae) from Mexico: Systematics, palaeoecology, palaeobiogeography, stratigraphy and perspectives1
- Cretaceous rudists of Boeotia, Central Greece1
Each of the 2 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 Reptomulticava flabellum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Reptomulticava flabellum 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 itReptomulticava through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fischer 1970)