Rhagodiscus reniformis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhagodiscusPBDB
- 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 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.
8 occurrences of Rhagodiscus reniformis 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
8 occurrences- Late Cretaceous88%
- Paleocene13%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Rhagodiscus reniformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Rhagodiscus reniformis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Rhagodiscus reniformis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis8 sites
- Eiffellithus gorkae7 sites
- Gartnerago segmentatum7 sites
- Micula decussata7 sites
- Placozygus spiralis7 sites
- Cribrosphaerella daniae6 sites
- Eiffellithus turriseiffeli6 sites
- Kamptnerius magnificus6 sites
- Prediscosphaera cretacea5 sites
- Prediscosphaera stoveri5 sites
- Rhagodiscus angustus5 sites
- Staurolithites melinciensis5 sites
- Watznaueria barnesae5 sites
- Chiastozygus garrissoni4 sites
- Cribrosphaerella ehrenbergii4 sites
- Actinozygus regularis3 sites
- Acuturris scotus3 sites
- Ahmuellerella octoradiata3 sites
- Braarudosphaera bigelowi3 sites
- Cretarhabdus conicus3 sites
- Eiffellithus parallelus3 sites
- Nephrolithus frequens3 sites
- Cervisiella operculata2 sites
- Micula2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Rhagodiscus reniformis, 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
2 references- A tsunami deposit at the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in the Neuquén Basin of Argentina7
- Campanian-Maastrichtian continental-marine connection at the Aquitaine-Pyrenees-Provence area (S France)1
Each of the 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Rhagodiscus reniformis 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 reniformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhagodiscus reniformis 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 itRhagodiscus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perch-Nielsen 1973