Rorringtonia scanica
No picture of Rorringtonia scanica 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 Rorringtonia scanica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RorringtoniaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Rorringtoniidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 7.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
10 occurrences of Rorringtonia scanica on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
10 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Rorringtonia scanica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rorringtonia scanica and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Rorringtonia scanica and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Diacanthaspis (Diacanthaspis) krizi2 sites
- Proboscisambon quaesita2 sites
- Acanthambonia1 site
- Acrosaccus squamosus1 site
- Actinopeltis1 site
- Aegiria1 site
- Anoptambonites monetus1 site
- Bumastus1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Cheirocrinus1 site
- Conotreta1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyclospira1 site
- Decipilites1 site
- Decoroproetus1 site
- Dindymene1 site
- Duftonia1 site
- Echinosphaeronites <sp. 1>1 site
- Echinosphaeronites <sp. 2>1 site
- Eoanastrophia1 site
- Epitomyonia1 site
- Gravicalymene asperula1 site
- Harpes1 site
- Heliocrinites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Rorringtonia scanica, 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- Late Ordovician and early Silurian Proetida (Trilobita) from North-Western and Central Europe8
- Kralodvor-Kosoviensis boundary at the Late Ordovician environmental changes in the Prague Basin (Barrandian Area, Bohemia)1
- Om de Chasmopskalken och Trinicleusskiffern motsvarande bildningarne I Skane1
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Rorringtonia scanica 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 Rorringtonia scanica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rorringtonia scanica 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 itRorringtonia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olin 1906)