Rhizopoterion

Rhizopoterion

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VentriculitinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lychniscosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 51 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 40 of 51 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 51 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 1 occurrence87–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 4 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 4 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 4 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 5 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences93.9 Mya41.03 Mya102 Mya36 Mya

51 occurrences of Rhizopoterion 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

51 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

12 formations

White Limestone — 55.22°N, 6.40°WVic Marls — 41.95°N, 2.22°EChiampo — 45.53°N, 11.25°EUpper Chalk — 50.78°N, 0.00°EUpper Chalk — 50.65°N, 1.57°WIlsenburg — 51.90°N, 10.67°EIlsenburg — 51.83°N, 10.78°EAhlen — 51.72°N, 7.93°EOpoka — 51.33°N, 21.97°EWhite Chalk — 54.52°N, 13.63°ESewerby Rocks — 54.10°N, 0.15°WArdanatz Sandstone — 42.80°N, 1.55°WIlundain Marls — 42.77°N, 1.80°WVic-Igualada — 41.90°N, 2.20°E

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The named rock units Rhizopoterion has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhizopoterion and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Rhizopoterion and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

556 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Rhizopoterion, 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

16 references

Each of the 51 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. 4 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 Rhizopoterion

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhizopoterion 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 itVentriculitinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zittel 1877