Rosselia socialis
No picture of Rosselia socialis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rosselia socialis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RosseliaPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 444 million years on record.
The record covers at least 468 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
3 occurrences of Rosselia socialis 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician67%
- Miocene29%
- Pliocene4%
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
- Grebes Nest Point Formation · Wabana Group1
- Dominion Formation · Bell Island Group1
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The named rock units Rosselia socialis 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.
Rosselia socialis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Rosselia socialis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Phycodes circinatum2 sites
- Arthraria antiquata1 site
- Bichordites sp.1 site
- Catenichnus contentus1 site
- Cruziana1 site
- Cruziana barriosi1 site
- Cruziana goldfussi1 site
- Cruziana stromnessi1 site
- Didymaulichnus lyelli1 site
- Hantzschelina sp.1 site
- Lingulichnus verticalis1 site
- Lockeia avalonensis1 site
- Lockeia siliquaria1 site
- Macaronichnus1 site
- Macaronichnus segregatis1 site
- Monomorphichnus1 site
- Monomorphichnus mulitilineatus1 site
- Neonereites uniserialis1 site
- Ophiomorpha1 site
- Palaeophycus sulcatus1 site
- Phycodes wabanensis1 site
- Phycosiphon incertum1 site
- Piscichnus waitemata1 site
- Planolites beverleyensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rosselia socialis, 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- Ichnology of the Upper Cambrian? to Lower Ordovician Bell Island and Wabana groups of eastern Newfoundland, Canada2
- Morphological variability of the trace fossil Schaubcylindrichnus coronus as a response to environmental forcing1
Each of the 3 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 Rosselia socialis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rosselia socialis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Rosselia socialis 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 itRosselia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dahmer 1937