Nanopsis
No picture of Nanopsis 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 Nanopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HollinaceaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 482.9 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
5 occurrences of Nanopsis 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
5 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Nanopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nanopsis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Nanopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Bienvillia angelini2 sites
- Acrotreta1 site
- Algae1 site
- Anatifopsis1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Apatobolus1 site
- Archaeorthis christianiae1 site
- Barrandia1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Broeggeria salteri1 site
- Bullaeferum1 site
- Carpoida <indet.>1 site
- Ceratopyge1 site
- Cnemidopyge parva1 site
- Conodonta1 site
- Conophrys pusilla1 site
- Conulariida1 site
- Cryptograptus tricornis1 site
- Cyclopygidae1 site
- Cystoidea1 site
- Dalmanellidae1 site
- Dendrograptus1 site
- Eiffeliidae1 site
- Galliaecystis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Nanopsis, 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- Lower Ordovician Ostracods from the Oslo region, Norway3
- Fauna and ecology of the holothurian bed, Llandrindod, Wales, UK (Darriwilian, Middle Ordovician), and the oldest articulated holothuria1
- Trilobites of the Tremadoc Bjørkåsholmen Formation in the Oslo Region, Norway1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Nanopsis 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 Nanopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nanopsis 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 itHollinacea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Henningsmoen 1953