Rhaxella

No picture of Rhaxella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Rhaxella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GeodiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Demospongiae
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Demospongiae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Demospongiae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 8.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 157.9 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 159 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 5 of 5 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–158 Mya — about 1 occurrence155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157.9 Mya149.2 Mya159.5 Mya142.6 Mya

5 occurrences of Rhaxella on record, most of them in the Late 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

4 formations

West Walton — 52.18°N, 0.12°ECoral Rag — 51.77°N, 1.25°WSüntel — 51.90°N, 10.50°EPortland Limestone — 50.52°N, 2.43°W

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The named rock units Rhaxella 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.

Rhaxella and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Rhaxella and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Rhaxella, 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

3 references

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. 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Rhaxella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Rhaxella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itGeodiinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.