Rhaetavicula contorta

Rhaetavicula contorta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhaetaviculaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pteriidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Pteriidae

Time the record covers

At most 36 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 112 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 112 of 112 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 112 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 2 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 31 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 31 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 31 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 13 occurrences237.7 Mya200.7 Mya

112 occurrences of Rhaetavicula contorta 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

112 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

15 formations

Kossen — 47.78°N, 13.80°EKossen — 47.66°N, 12.45°EKossen — 47.57°N, 11.77°EKossen — 47.75°N, 14.73°EKossen — 47.55°N, 12.17°EKossen — 47.71°N, 13.20°EKoessen — 47.00°N, 13.00°EKoessen — 47.71°N, 13.20°EKoessen — 47.67°N, 12.70°EWestbury — 51.17°N, 3.27°WWestbury — 51.93°N, 2.23°WWestbury — 51.24°N, 2.34°WWestbury — 51.55°N, 2.40°WWestbury — 51.82°N, 2.41°WWestbury — 54.26°N, 1.28°WCalcare di Zu — 45.85°N, 9.42°ECalcare di Zu — 45.67°N, 10.02°ERiva di Solto — 46.00°N, 10.00°EZu Limestone — 46.00°N, 10.00°ECon Tagne Conglomerate — 20.00°N, 102.00°ENayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°EKössen beds — 49.03°N, 19.84°EBleskovy pramen — 48.65°N, 20.67°EDolomías tableadas de Imón — 40.92°N, 2.53°WKössen — 47.07°N, 9.72°EDachstein Limestone — 47.29°N, 17.83°EKossen — 47.53°N, 11.09°EGrès de Infralias — 48.01°N, 5.53°E

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The named rock units Rhaetavicula contorta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhaetavicula contorta and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Rhaetavicula contorta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

387 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 80 sites for Rhaetavicula contorta, 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

22 references

Each of the 112 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. 10 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 content1

Picture of Rhaetavicula contorta

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Rhaetavicula contorta 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 itRhaetavicula through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Portlock 1843)