Nereidella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PaurorthidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 461 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 478.8 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
28 occurrences of Nereidella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
28 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Nereidella 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.
Nereidella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Nereidella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
287 taxa- Sinorthis16 sites
- Yangtzeella13 sites
- Baltoniodus12 sites
- Yangtzeella (Yangtzeella) poloi12 sites
- Euorthisina11 sites
- Scolopodus11 sites
- Leptella grandis10 sites
- Protopanderodus10 sites
- Drepanoistodus9 sites
- Paralenorthis serica9 sites
- Mimella8 sites
- Tritoechia8 sites
- Cornuodus7 sites
- Drepanodus7 sites
- Nasusgnathus7 sites
- Oistodus7 sites
- Pseudomimella7 sites
- Punctolira7 sites
- Didymograptus6 sites
- Megalaspides6 sites
- Paroistodus6 sites
- Periodon6 sites
- Protoskenidioides6 sites
- Acodus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Nereidella, 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- Brachiopod diversification during the Early–Mid Ordovician: an example from the Dawan Formation, Yichang area, central China12
- Biostratigraphy of the Yangtze Gorge Area. Part (2) Early Paleozoic Era10
- The global stratotype section and point for the base of the Middle Ordovician Series and the Third Stage (Dapingian)2
- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia2
- Regional stratigraphic table of Northwest China, Shanxi Province Part1
- Regional stratigraphic data of central South China1
Each of the 28 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
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No picture of Nereidella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nereidella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPaurorthidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.