Ruthiphiala
No picture of Ruthiphiala was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ruthiphiala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AraksalosiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Strophalosiidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ruthiphiala on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ruthiphiala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ruthiphiala and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Ruthiphiala and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Eudoxina2 sites
- Kitakamithyris2 sites
- Mesoplica2 sites
- Orbiculoidea2 sites
- Ovatia2 sites
- Paraphorhynchus2 sites
- Rugosochonetes2 sites
- Schuchertella2 sites
- Syringothyris2 sites
- Whidbornella2 sites
- Argentiproductus1 site
- Avonia1 site
- Beecheria1 site
- Brachythyris1 site
- Camarophorella1 site
- Composita1 site
- Dielasmella1 site
- Eomartiniopsis1 site
- Hamburgia1 site
- Leptagonia1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Orbinaria1 site
- Parallelora1 site
- Plicochonetes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ruthiphiala, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Ruthiphiala was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ruthiphiala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAraksalosiinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.