Ruggieria tetraptera
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RuggieriaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Ruggieria tetraptera on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ruggieria tetraptera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ruggieria tetraptera and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ruggieria tetraptera and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Bairdia5 sites
- Costa5 sites
- Loxocorniculum5 sites
- Sagmatocythere5 sites
- Aurila4 sites
- Carinovalva rotundata4 sites
- Cytherella4 sites
- Grinioneis haidingeri4 sites
- Loxoconcha4 sites
- Callistocythere3 sites
- Cytherella vulgata3 sites
- Heliocythere vejhonensis3 sites
- Paracytheridea3 sites
- Buntonia2 sites
- Carinovalva aquila2 sites
- Cnestocythere2 sites
- Cytherelloidea2 sites
- Cytheropteron2 sites
- Eucytherura2 sites
- Henryhowella asperrima2 sites
- Paracypris2 sites
- Parakrithe2 sites
- Pokornyella2 sites
- Pterigocythereis cornuta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ruggieria tetraptera, 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- Preliminary stratigraphical investigations of the Miocene successions of the Porto Torres Basin (northern Sardinia, Italy)5
- Ostracoda and Foraminifera assemblages of the Lower-Middle Miocene reefal carbonates within the Değirmençay Area, NW Mersin/S Turkey2
Each of the 7 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 Ruggieria tetraptera 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 Ruggieria tetraptera, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ruggieria tetraptera 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itRuggieria through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Seguenza 1880)