Neilo ornata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeiloPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Neilo
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 38 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.
12 occurrences of Neilo ornata 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
12 occurrences- Paleocene8%
- Oligocene28%
- Miocene62%
- Pliocene1%
- Pleistoceneunder 1%
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
6 formations
- San Julián Formation4
- Guadal Formation3
- Roca Formation1
- San Julian Formation1
- Ionayskaya Formation1
- Monte Leon Fm Formation1
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The named rock units Neilo ornata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
157 taxa- Chlamys2 sites
- Cucullaea alta2 sites
- Jorgechlamys centralis2 sites
- Leionucula2 sites
- Turritella2 sites
- ? Tricosirius patagonica1 site
- Acharax1 site
- Acila (Acila) praedivaricata1 site
- Aequipecten paranensis1 site
- Ameghinomya argentina1 site
- Ameghinomya darwini1 site
- Ameghinomya meridionalis1 site
- Antimelatoma1 site
- Aphrodina1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arca (Arca) patagonica1 site
- Ataxocerithium1 site
- Atrina magellanica1 site
- Aulacomya atra1 site
- Austroimbricaria1 site
- Austroimbricaria quemadensis1 site
- Austromitra1 site
- Biantholithus1 site
- Borsonia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Neilo ornata, 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
6 references- Tertiary Marine Molluscan Assemblages of Eastern Patagonia (Argentina): A Biostratigraphic Analysis4
- Invertibrados fósiles marinos de la Formación Guadal (Oligoceno superio-Mioceno inferior) en Pampa, Castillo region, región de Aisén, Chile3
- Nuevos moluscos de la formacion San Julian Provincia de Santa Cruz2
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.1
- Fossil decapod crustaceans from the Jaguel and Roca Formations (Maastrichtian-Danian) of the Neuquen Basin, Argentina1
- Monografia de los terrenos marinos terciarios, de las cercanias del Parana1
Each of the 12 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 Neilo ornata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Neilo ornata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1846)