Nephrolenellus geniculatus

No picture of Nephrolenellus geniculatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Nephrolenellus geniculatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NephrolenellusPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 7.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 516 Mya and 508.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 14 of 14 occurrencesCambrian516–516 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516.5 Mya507.7 Mya

14 occurrences of Nephrolenellus geniculatus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

14 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

2 formations

Pioche Shale — 37.77°N, 114.56°WPioche Shale — 37.61°N, 114.76°WPioche Shale — 37.53°N, 114.73°WPioche — 37.80°N, 114.57°W

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The named rock units Nephrolenellus geniculatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Nephrolenellus geniculatus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Nephrolenellus geniculatus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Nephrolenellus geniculatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

5 references

Each of the 14 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 content0

No picture of Nephrolenellus geniculatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Nephrolenellus geniculatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nephrolenellus geniculatus 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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What may have been alongside itNephrolenellus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Palmer 1998