Nellia

Nellia

CSIRO Sea Bed Diversity Project on RV Gwendoline May · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
QuadricellariidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 65 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 65 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 21 of 65 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 15 of 65 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 17 of 65 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 65 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 65 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–61 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 3 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences61.66 Mya1.8 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

65 occurrences of Nellia on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

65 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

25 formations

Crystal River Limestone — 29.65°N, 82.61°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.19°N, 82.14°WCrystal River Limestone — 29.29°N, 82.75°WCrystal River Limestone — 28.71°N, 82.57°WWilliston Limestone — 29.77°N, 82.87°WWilliston Limestone — 29.29°N, 82.75°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WMoin — 9.99°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.01°N, 83.06°WByram Marl — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram Marl — 31.69°N, 88.66°WManiyara Fort — 23.45°N, 68.62°ELower Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.44°EMarianna Limestone — 31.15°N, 87.15°WMarianna Limestone — 31.53°N, 87.89°WDry Creek Sands — 34.75°S, 138.68°EDry Creek Sands — 34.91°S, 138.56°EKhari Nadi — 23.40°N, 68.80°EChaasra — 23.37°N, 68.82°ELondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WPachuta Marl — 31.14°N, 87.94°WBumpnose — 30.77°N, 85.23°WMont Aime — 48.50°N, 3.00°EClayton — 32.05°N, 86.78°WMcBean — 33.25°N, 81.93°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.55°WMoodys Branch — 32.32°N, 90.16°WRed Bluff — 32.32°N, 90.89°WPirabas — 0.70°S, 47.51°WHarudi — 23.52°N, 68.70°EFulra — 23.70°N, 68.78°E

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The named rock units Nellia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nellia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nellia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

576 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Nellia, 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

17 references

Each of the 65 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. 5 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 Nellia

Source
GBIF
Credit
CSIRO Sea Bed Diversity Project on RV Gwendoline May
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nellia 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. Busk 1852