Ansella nevadensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnsellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Conodonta
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conodonta
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Conodonta
Time the record covers
At least 7.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 457.3 Mya to 449.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.5 Mya.
12 occurrences of Ansella nevadensis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
12 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group8
- Crown Point Limestone Formation3
- Fjacka Formation1
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The named rock units Ansella nevadensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ansella nevadensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ansella nevadensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Conodonta10 sites
- Panderodus9 sites
- Acodus7 sites
- Belodina monitorensis7 sites
- Periodon7 sites
- Phragmodus flexuosus5 sites
- Scandodus5 sites
- Cahabagnathus friendsvillensis4 sites
- Pygodus serra4 sites
- Erraticodon3 sites
- Polyplacognathus3 sites
- "Roundia" bispicata2 sites
- Histiodella2 sites
- Juanognathus2 sites
- Multioistodus2 sites
- Plectodina2 sites
- Prioniodus2 sites
- Scolopodus2 sites
- Bathyurus extans1 site
- Belodella1 site
- Belodina1 site
- Cahabagnathus sweeti1 site
- Calyptaulax1 site
- Coelocerodontus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Ansella nevadensis, 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- Aspects of Middle and Upper Ordovician Conodont Biostratigraphy of Carbonate Facies in Nevada and Southeast California and Comparison with Some Appalachian Successions8
- Cambrian and Ordovician stratigraphy, conodont biostratigraphy, and microfacies analysis to support 1:24,000-scale geologic mapping of the southern Lake Champlain valley, New York and Vermont3
- Upper Ordovician conodonts from Bornholm and possible migration routes in the Palaeotethys Ocean1
Each of the 12 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. 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 content0
No picture of Ansella nevadensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Ansella nevadensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ansella nevadensis 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 itAnsella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ethington and Schumacher 1969)