Rugosa

Searched as Rugosa indet.. The Paleobiology Database treats Rugosa as the accepted name.

Rugosa

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
horn coralPBDB
Sits inside
HexacoralliaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 204 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 796 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 55 of 796 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 261 of 796 occurrencesDevonian — about 318 of 796 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 109 of 796 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 54 of 796 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 796 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 796 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 796 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 796 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 796 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 796 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 796 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 796 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 796 occurrences548–532 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences532–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences499–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–466 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences466–450 Mya — about 11 occurrences450–434 Mya — about 154 occurrences434–417 Mya — about 157 occurrences417–401 Mya — about 67 occurrences401–384 Mya — about 153 occurrences384–368 Mya — about 78 occurrences368–352 Mya — about 20 occurrences352–335 Mya — about 75 occurrences335–319 Mya — about 7 occurrences319–302 Mya — about 13 occurrences302–286 Mya — about 15 occurrences286–270 Mya — about 10 occurrences270–253 Mya — about 29 occurrences253–237 Mya — about 4 occurrences237–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–204 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204–188 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences188–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–138 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–122 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences122–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–73 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences73–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458.2 Mya254.14 Mya548 Mya57 Mya

796 occurrences of Rugosa on record, most of them in the Devonian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

796 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

257 formations

Racine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 42.00°N, 88.00°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WHigh Tor Limestone — 51.63°N, 3.97°WHigh Tor Limestone — 51.50°N, 3.00°WSolvik — 59.92°N, 10.75°ESolvik — 60.17°N, 10.30°ESolvik — 59.83°N, 10.43°EScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 42.15°N, 90.68°WScotch Grove — 41.88°N, 90.55°WScotch Grove — 41.77°N, 91.13°WScotch Grove — 42.12°N, 91.13°WScotch Grove — 42.48°N, 90.87°WScotch Grove — 42.10°N, 91.28°WMartin — 34.75°N, 112.11°WMartin — 34.75°N, 112.13°WMartin — 34.88°N, 112.35°WMartin — 34.88°N, 112.07°WMartin — 34.45°N, 111.84°WMount Ida — 36.77°S, 144.77°EMount Ida — 37.00°S, 144.00°EMount Ida — 34.42°S, 145.60°ESkaneateles — 42.87°N, 77.87°WGerster — 40.17°N, 114.83°WGerster — 40.42°N, 114.83°WGerster — 40.50°N, 114.83°WGerster — 40.50°N, 114.67°WGerster — 40.08°N, 113.83°WTin Mountain — 36.33°N, 116.52°WTin Mountain — 36.44°N, 117.63°WTin Mountain — 36.54°N, 117.03°WBeul — 51.39°N, 7.87°EJemelle — 50.10°N, 5.02°EFort Payne Chert — 36.92°N, 84.96°WFort Payne Chert — 36.54°N, 85.16°WFort Payne Chert — 36.72°N, 85.45°WKhandyg — 63.40°N, 136.68°EKhandyg — 60.15°N, 137.10°EKhandyg — 63.52°N, 136.60°EKhandyg — 62.85°N, 138.15°EManistique — 45.06°N, 87.12°WManistique — 45.29°N, 86.98°WCapas de Aguion — 43.63°N, 2.11°ECapas de Aguion — 43.58°N, 2.30°ECapas de Aguion — 43.46°N, 2.40°ECapas de Aguion — 43.43°N, 2.38°ECapas de Aguion — 43.47°N, 2.18°ECapas de Aguion — 43.40°N, 2.45°ECapas de Aguion — 43.22°N, 2.53°ECapas de Aguion — 43.16°N, 2.64°ESilica — 41.12°N, 84.85°WBaraniy — 63.40°N, 136.68°EBaraniy — 60.15°N, 137.10°EBaraniy — 62.93°N, 138.10°EBaraniy — 62.85°N, 138.15°EDenay Limestone — 39.22°N, 116.22°WHagen-Balve — 51.39°N, 7.86°EHopkinton — 43.00°N, 91.00°WHopkinton — 42.00°N, 91.00°Wupper part — 43.25°N, 2.55°Eupper part — 43.38°N, 2.52°Eupper part — 43.13°N, 2.31°Eupper part — 43.05°N, 2.38°Eupper part — 43.03°N, 2.55°ENewberria — 51.12°N, 7.90°ENewberria — 51.12°N, 7.85°ENewberria — 51.17°N, 7.97°ENewberria — 51.15°N, 7.92°ELudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.35°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.22°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.87°WChangxing — 30.05°N, 108.93°EChangxing — 30.48°N, 109.05°EChangxing — 30.22°N, 109.05°EChangxing — 32.38°N, 107.11°EChangxing — 31.76°N, 108.46°EChangxing — 25.75°N, 112.82°E

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The named rock units Rugosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 233 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 119 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rugosa and its relatives

Devonian

Where Rugosa and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,653 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 872 sites for Rugosa, and this reads 240 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

234 references

Each of the 796 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. 222 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Rugosa

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itHexacorallia through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)