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Rostellites ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	369021	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=369021

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Rostellites

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
genus	Rostellites	Conrad 1854

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

101 - 94 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. A. Waring. 1917. Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 7(4):41-124

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Rostellites gabbi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	101 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous

References

Waring C. A. (1917) Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 7 4, 41-124

Lamsdell J. C. (2013) Revised systematics of Palaeozoic 'horseshoe crabs' and the myth of monophyletic Xiphosura, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 167, 1-27

Latreille P. A. , Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième, 1-467

Huxley T. H. On the application of the laws of evolution to the arrangement of the Vertebrata, and more particularly of the Mammalia, Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London 43, 649-662

Romer A. S. (1955) Herpetichthyes, Amphibioidei, Choanichthyes or Sarcopterygii?, Nature 176, 126

Ahlberg P. E. (1991) A re-examination of sarcopterygian interrelationships, with special reference to the Porolepiformes, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 103 3, 241-287 doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1991.tb00905.x

Jaekel O. (1911) , Die Wirbeltiere. Eine Übersicht über die Fossilen und Lebenden Formen [The Vertebrates. An Overview of the Fossil and Living Forms], viii-252

Säve-Söderbergh G. (1934) Some points of view concerning the evolution of the Vertebrates and the classification of this group, Arkiv för Zoologi 26A 17, 1-20

Efremov I. A. (1946) O Podklasse Batrachosauria - Gruppe Form, Promezhutochnykh Mezhdu Zemnovodnymi i Presmykayoushchimisya [On the Subclass Batrachosauria - A Group of Forms Intermediate Between Amphibians and Reptiles], Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR Otdelenie Biologicheskikh Nauk [Bulletin of the Academy of Science of the USSR Section of Biological Sciences] 6, 615-638

Cope E. D. The skull of Empedocles, The American Naturalist 14, 304

Haeckel E. , Generelle Morphologie der Organismen, Allgemeine Grundzuge der Organischen Formen-Wissenschaft, Mechanisch Begründet Durch die von Charles Darwin Reformirte Descendez-Theorie. Verlag von Georg Reimer, Berlin, CLX-462

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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