Nanonavis

Nanonavis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GrammatodontinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 102 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 92 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 92 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 92 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 92 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 33 of 92 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 57 of 92 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 92 occurrences204–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–195 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences195–190 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences190–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–176 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences176–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences157–152 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–129 Mya — about 4 occurrences129–124 Mya — about 5 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 5 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 8 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 5 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 3 occurrences91–87 Mya — about 3 occurrences87–82 Mya — about 7 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 11 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 11 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 14 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 6 occurrences174.7 Mya72.2 Mya204 Mya63 Mya

92 occurrences of Nanonavis on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

92 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

23 formations

Budden Canyon — 40.47°N, 122.61°WBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.55°WBudden Canyon — 40.43°N, 122.65°WMishash — 30.17°N, 35.00°ELadd — 33.69°N, 117.61°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.65°WHinoshima — 32.47°N, 130.47°EHinoshima — 32.40°N, 130.40°EFolkestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EFolkestone — 51.32°N, 0.32°EBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WBlackdown Greensand — 50.87°N, 3.29°WMoreno — 37.85°N, 121.71°WMoreno — 36.90°N, 120.85°WEnokuchi — 32.32°N, 130.35°EChatsworth — 34.20°N, 118.69°WForbes — 38.95°N, 122.01°WConglomérats de Bargy — 46.02°N, 6.46°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.93°N, 6.25°EArida — 34.04°N, 135.17°EUpper Haborogawa — 44.13°N, 141.75°EYorimatsu — 33.25°N, 132.75°EBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°EFunagawara — 39.07°N, 141.72°ESendai — 31.83°N, 130.19°EPanoche — 35.88°N, 120.10°WJalama — 34.51°N, 120.44°WIshido — 36.07°N, 138.83°ETuna Canyon — 34.07°N, 118.56°WCedar District — 49.56°N, 124.80°W

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The named rock units Nanonavis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nanonavis and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Nanonavis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

751 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 82 sites for Nanonavis, 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

31 references

Each of the 92 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. 19 further references are not listed. 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 Nanonavis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Nanonavis 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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Everything alive alongside itGrammatodontinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stewart 1930)