Ruffordia goepperti
No picture of Ruffordia goepperti 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 Ruffordia goepperti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RuffordiaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At least 8.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
3 occurrences of Ruffordia goepperti on record, most of them in the Early 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
3 occurrences- Early 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.
Found in
3 formations
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The named rock units Ruffordia goepperti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ruffordia goepperti and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Ruffordia goepperti and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
199 taxa- Caturus2 sites
- Gleichenia2 sites
- Lepidotes2 sites
- Theropoda2 sites
- <Infructescence>1 site
- <Isolated cone scale>1 site
- <Isolated cone>1 site
- <Perianth part>1 site
- <Pinnately lobed leaf>1 site
- <Round apex leaf>1 site
- <Seed>1 site
- Abietites ernestinae1 site
- Ademosynidae1 site
- Adiantites1 site
- Aethalion robustus1 site
- Algites1 site
- Allopterus mayorgai1 site
- Amiopsis1 site
- Amiopsis dolloi1 site
- Anteophthalmosuchus epikrator1 site
- Anteophthalmosuchus hooleyi1 site
- Anura1 site
- Aralia polymorpha1 site
- Aralia ravniana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ruffordia goepperti, 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- Sanz et al., 20141
- Evolutionary and Paleoecological Implications of Fossil Plants from the Lower Cretaceous Cheyenne Sandstone of the Western Interior1
- Quinet, 19691
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 Ruffordia goepperti 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 Ruffordia goepperti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ruffordia goepperti 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 itRuffordia through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dunker 1844)