Rhagodiscus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhagodiscaceaePBDB
- 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 least 102 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
69 occurrences of Rhagodiscus 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
69 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Jagüel Formation · Malargüe Group20
- Pedro Luro Formation2
- Pedro Luro Formation2
- Avezac Formation1
- Campo Bola Formation1
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The named rock units Rhagodiscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rhagodiscus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Rhagodiscus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
304 taxa- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii36 sites
- Kamptnerius magnificus34 sites
- Ahmuellerella octoradiata31 sites
- Prediscosphaera columnata27 sites
- Tranolithus orionatus27 sites
- Prediscosphaera spinosa22 sites
- Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis21 sites
- Cretarhabdus conicus21 sites
- Gartnerago obliquum21 sites
- Gartnerago segmentatum20 sites
- Seribiscutum primitivum20 sites
- Watznaueria barnesiae20 sites
- Eiffellithus19 sites
- Zeugrhabdotus19 sites
- Eprolithus floralis18 sites
- Prediscosphaera cretacea18 sites
- Broinsonia signata17 sites
- Cribrosphaerella daniae17 sites
- Eiffellithus gorkae17 sites
- Prediscosphaera stoveri16 sites
- Micula concava15 sites
- Micula staurophora15 sites
- Placozygus spiralis15 sites
- Chiastozygus platyrhethus14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Rhagodiscus, 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
15 references- Site U151221
- A tsunami deposit at the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in the Neuquén Basin of Argentina12
- Site U151311
- End-Cretaceous calcareous nannoplankton and response to the K/Pg event in the Kawas epicontinental sea. Insights from Cerro Bombero section, Jagüel formation, Neuquén Basin7
- Site U15163
- Calcareous nannofossil events in the late cretaceous at Pedro Luro borehole, Colorado basin, Argentina2
- Site U13472
- Site U13482
- Nanofósiles calcáreos del Cretácico tardío - Terciario, del Pozo BB III A x-1 (Bahía Blanca), cuenca del Colorado, Argentina2
- Die Floren- und Faunenverteilung im Unter-Hauterive (Unter-Kreide) der Tongruben Heisterholz (NRW)2
- Late Maastrichtian to Danian organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts and calcareous nannofossils from eastern Austral Basin, Patagonia, Argentina1
- Site U13491
Each of the 69 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. 3 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
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No picture of Rhagodiscus 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 Rhagodiscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhagodiscus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRhagodiscaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reinhardt 1967