Namalia
No picture of Namalia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Namalia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ErniettomorphaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Erniettomorpha
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Erniettomorpha
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Erniettomorpha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Erniettomorpha
Time the record covers
At most 97 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Namalia on record. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
- Dabis Formation · Nama Group4
- Kuibis Quartzite Formation · Nama Group1
- Nadaleen Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Namalia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Aspidella2 sites
- Pteridinium simplex2 sites
- Beltanelliformis1 site
- Beltanelliformis brunsae1 site
- Beothukis mistakensis1 site
- Bergaueria1 site
- Buchholzbrunnichnus1 site
- Charnia masoni1 site
- Charniodiscus1 site
- Cloudina1 site
- Ernietta1 site
- Fractofusus andersoni1 site
- Orthogonium1 site
- Primocandelabrum1 site
- Primocandelabrum hiemaloranum1 site
- Protechiurus edmondsi1 site
- Pteridinium1 site
- Rangea1 site
- Rangea schneiderhoehni1 site
- Skolithos1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Namalia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
5 references- Ediacaran paleobiology and biostratigraphy of the Nama Group, Namibia, with emphasis on the erniettomorphs, tubular and trace fossils, and a new sponge, Arimasia germsi n. gen. n. sp.2
- Deep-water Ediacaran fossils from northwestern Canada: Taphonomy, ecology, and evolution1
- Underground Vendobionta from Namibia1
- The Neoproterozoic of southwestern Africa, with emphasis on platform stratigraphy and paleontology1
- An echiurid worm from the Late Precambrian1
Each of the 6 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
Media content0
No picture of Namalia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Namalia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Namalia was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itErniettomorpha through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Germs 1968