Neilo

Nelio is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs of the family Malletiidae.

Neilo

Auckland War Memorial Museum · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 13.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 12 of 53 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 53 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 53 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 53 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 24 of 53 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 53 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 53 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–60 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 6 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 11 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya13.05 Mya85 Mya0 Mya

53 occurrences of Neilo on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

53 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

24 formations

Lefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.69°S, 69.84°WRifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°ESan Julián — 47.13°S, 66.05°WSan Julián — 47.03°S, 66.70°WSan Julián — 49.30°S, 67.72°WIhungia — 40.13°S, 176.55°EIhungia — 40.30°S, 176.28°EGuadal — 47.00°S, 72.43°WRio Foyel — 41.73°S, 71.46°WRio Foyel — 41.73°S, 71.42°WSan Julian — 49.30°S, 67.72°WSan Julian — 47.13°S, 66.05°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.66°WCape Melville — 62.00°S, 57.50°WNavidad — 33.94°S, 71.85°WNavidad — 33.83°S, 71.83°WTorehina — 36.67°S, 175.44°ETorehina — 36.65°S, 175.53°ERoca — 37.67°S, 67.50°WKoheroa Siltstone — 37.67°S, 175.15°EIonayskaya — 62.25°N, 175.17°EStillwater Mudstone — 42.47°S, 171.18°EPrince Creek — 70.05°N, 151.63°WTokama Siltstone — 44.31°S, 171.22°EMount Brown — 44.16°S, 171.10°EMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WJagüel — 38.10°S, 68.39°WSanta Marta — 64.17°S, 57.75°WLefipan — 42.84°S, 69.71°WColitoro — 41.00°S, 69.25°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.60°W

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The named rock units Neilo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Neilo and its relatives

Miocene

Where Neilo and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

371 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Neilo, 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

25 references

Each of the 53 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. 13 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 Neilo

Credit
Auckland War Memorial Museum
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neilo 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMalletiidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams 1854