Rupertia
No picture of Rupertia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rupertia 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 Rupertia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HomotrematidaePBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rotaliina
- Environment
- outer shelf,marinePBDB, for Rotaliina
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.
6 occurrences of Rupertia on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene17%
- Pleistocene67%
- Holocene17%
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.
Rupertia and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Rupertia and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
190 taxa- Acropora humilis3 sites
- Carpenteria3 sites
- Goniastrea stelligera3 sites
- Homotrema3 sites
- Miniacina3 sites
- Pocillopora verrucosa3 sites
- Sporadotrema3 sites
- Acropora hyacinthus2 sites
- Acropora robusta2 sites
- Chevaliericrusta cf. polynesiae2 sites
- Dendropoma2 sites
- Goniastrea pectinata2 sites
- Goniastrea retiformis2 sites
- Hydrolithon onkodes2 sites
- Leptoria phrygia2 sites
- Lithophyllum2 sites
- Porites2 sites
- Porolithon2 sites
- Serpulorbis2 sites
- Acropora1 site
- Aenigmathyris stearnsi1 site
- Alveopora1 site
- Alveopora allingi1 site
- Ammolagena1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Rupertia, 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- A 300000-yr coral reef record of sea level changes, Mururoa atoll (Tuamotu archipelago, French Polynesia)4
- Revisiting the Quaternary development history of the western New Caledonian shelf system: from ramp to barrier reef1
- Smaller Foraminifera of Late Eocene Age From Eua, Tonga1
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Rupertia was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Wikidata have a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rupertia 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 Rupertia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rupertia 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 itHomotrematidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wallich 1877