Rhopalastrum tumidum
No picture of Rhopalastrum tumidum 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 Rhopalastrum tumidum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhopalastrumPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 89.8 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Rhopalastrum tumidum 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Rhopalastrum tumidum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Rhopalastrum tumidum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Dictyomitra striata4 sites
- Archaeospongoprunum bipartitum3 sites
- Euchitonia santonica3 sites
- Histiastrum membraniferum3 sites
- Orbiculiforma multa3 sites
- Orbiculiforma vacaensis3 sites
- Crucella messinae2 sites
- Orbiculiforma2 sites
- Pseudoaulophacus floresensis2 sites
- Pseudoaulophacus praefloresensis2 sites
- Amphipyndax stocki1 site
- Archaeodictyomitra vulgaris1 site
- Archaeospongoprunum1 site
- Cromyodruppa concentrica1 site
- Dictyomitra1 site
- Dictyomitra formosa1 site
- Euchitonia triradiata1 site
- Histiastrum aster1 site
- Histiastrum crux1 site
- Histiastrum irregularis1 site
- Histiastrum latum1 site
- Lithocampe marinae1 site
- Lithostrobus1 site
- Paronaella communis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Rhopalastrum tumidum, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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
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No picture of Rhopalastrum tumidum 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 Rhopalastrum tumidum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhopalastrum tumidum 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 itRhopalastrum through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lipman 1952