Afrollonia nigeriensis
J. Hoel, W. P. Popenoe · CC0 · via GBIF. 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- Sits inside
- AfrolloniaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Turbinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turbinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turbinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 61.66 Mya and 59.24 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Afrollonia nigeriensis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
1 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Afrollonia nigeriensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Afrollonia nigeriensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Afrollonia nigeriensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
235 taxa- Adegokeastrea ewekoroensis1 site
- Admetula1 site
- Aeora africana1 site
- Afrollonia angustiumbilicata1 site
- Afrollonia togoensis1 site
- Agaronia togoensis1 site
- Ampullina tapina1 site
- Anodontia (Afranodontia) marginidentata1 site
- Anomia cooperi1 site
- Antalis1 site
- Arca (Arca) accra1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Architectonica asseezi1 site
- Architectonica nigeriensis1 site
- Arctica africana1 site
- Astarte (Astarte) ewekoroensis1 site
- Barbatia (Acar) micronodosa1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) ewekoroensis1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) nigeriensis1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) yoloyei1 site
- Bayania1 site
- Bittium1 site
- Bonellitia (Admetula) imevborei1 site
- Bursa saundersi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Afrollonia nigeriensis, 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 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Afrollonia nigeriensis
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- J. Hoel, W. P. Popenoe
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Afrollonia nigeriensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAfrollonia through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adegoke 1977