Rota martini

No picture of Rota martini 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 Rota martini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RotaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Apodida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Apodida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Apodida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Holothuroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 87 million years on record.

The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 1 occurrence354–351 Mya — about 1 occurrence351–347 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences347–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences344–340 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences265–261 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences351.9 Mya264.28 Mya361 Mya258 Mya

5 occurrences of Rota martini on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

5 formations

Allan Mountain limestone — 45.68°N, 111.03°WChouteau limestone — 38.85°N, 92.45°WCompton limestone — 37.70°N, 93.80°WEscabrosa limestone — 32.70°N, 109.37°WBell Canyon — 31.88°N, 104.80°W

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The named rock units Rota martini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Rota martini and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Rota martini and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Rota martini, 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 content0

No picture of Rota martini 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 Rota martini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rota martini 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 itRota through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Langenheim and Epis 1957