Nephrolithus frecuens
No picture of Nephrolithus frecuens was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Nephrolithus frecuens firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Nephrolithus frecuens on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Nephrolithus frecuens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nephrolithus frecuens and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Nephrolithus frecuens and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis3 sites
- Eiffellithus turriseiffelii3 sites
- Ellipsagelosphaera ovata3 sites
- Kamptnerius magnificus3 sites
- Micula concava3 sites
- Micula staurophora3 sites
- Ahmuellerella octoradiata2 sites
- Amphizygus brooksii2 sites
- Biscutum magnum2 sites
- Chiastozygus synquadriperforatus2 sites
- Cribrosphaerella daniae2 sites
- Prediscosphaera grandis2 sites
- Quadrum bengalensis2 sites
- Quadrum sissinghii2 sites
- Quadrum svabenickae2 sites
- Reinhardtites anthophorus2 sites
- Staurolithites zoensis2 sites
- Watznaueria barnesae2 sites
- Watznaueria biporta2 sites
- Biscutum coronum1 site
- Broinsonia signata1 site
- Chiastozygus bifarius1 site
- Cocosfera sp.1 site
- Cyclagelosphaera margerelii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nephrolithus frecuens, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Nephrolithus frecuens was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Nephrolithus frecuens firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Nephrolithus frecuens 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 itFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.