Rugia

No picture of Rugia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rugia itself, so it was not used. 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 Rugia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChlidonophorinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Chlidonophoridae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chlidonophoridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Chlidonophoridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 124 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 100 of 124 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 20 of 124 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 124 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 124 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 8 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 8 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 8 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 8 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 10 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 22 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 22 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 17 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 11 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence72.2 Mya37.71 Mya102 Mya33 Mya

124 occurrences of Rugia on record, most of them in the Late 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

124 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

4 formations

Ciply-Malogne Phosphatic Chalk — 50.42°N, 3.94°ETrivières Chalk — 50.41°N, 3.92°EObourg — 50.41°N, 3.92°EDanish White Chalk — 57.07°N, 9.93°E

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The named rock units Rugia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 96 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rugia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Rugia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

87 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 94 sites for Rugia, 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

9 references

Each of the 124 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 Rugia was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rugia itself, so it was not used.

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 Rugia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rugia 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 itChlidonophorinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Steinich 1963