Australoneilo gracilis

Australoneilo gracilis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AustraloneiloPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 45 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 46 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 46 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 35 of 46 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 46 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 12 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 12 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 9 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101.4 Mya55.1 Mya

46 occurrences of Australoneilo gracilis 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

46 occurrences

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

8 formations

Jagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.83°S, 69.70°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°W? — 51.15°S, 72.38°W? — 50.60°S, 72.50°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WCerro Dorotea — 51.30°S, 72.32°W

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The named rock units Australoneilo gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Australoneilo gracilis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Australoneilo gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

194 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Australoneilo gracilis, 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

8 references

Each of the 46 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 content1

Picture of Australoneilo gracilis

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iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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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 itAustraloneilo through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wilckens 1907)