Retecapsa incompta

No picture of Retecapsa incompta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Retecapsa incompta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RetecapsaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Haptophyta
Life habit
planktonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Haptophyta
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Haptophyta
Environment
oceanic,oligotrophic,marine,brackishPBDB, for Haptophyta

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 182.9 Mya and 170.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 4 of 5 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183.4 Mya170.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Retecapsa incompta on record, most of them in the Early 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

5 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

1 formation

Jurensismergel — 47.95°N, 7.82°E

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The named rock units Retecapsa incompta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Retecapsa incompta and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Retecapsa incompta and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

75 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Retecapsa incompta, 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 reference

Each of the 5 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 content0

No picture of Retecapsa incompta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Retecapsa incompta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Retecapsa incompta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itRetecapsa through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bown 1987