Nevadia

Nevadia is an extinct genus of redlichiid trilobites, with species of average size. It lived during the Atdabanian stage, which lasted from 530 to 524 million years ago, in what are today Western Canada, the Western United States, and Mexico.

Nevadia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NevadiidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Nevadiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 5.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 515.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 39 of 39 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 39 occurrences540–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–536 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences536–534 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences534–533 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences533–531 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences529–527 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 1 occurrence520–518 Mya — about 8 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 8 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 7 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 3 occurrences513–511 Mya — about 3 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 3 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 1 occurrence507–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences506–504 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences502–500 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences500–498 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences497–495 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences495–493 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521 Mya – 515.3 Mya540 Mya486 Mya

39 occurrences of Nevadia 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

39 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

9 formations

Poleta — 37.79°N, 117.27°WPoleta — 37.82°N, 117.78°WPoleta — 37.28°N, 118.16°WPoleta — 37.73°N, 117.36°WPoleta — 36.79°N, 116.93°WPoleta — 37.26°N, 118.13°WCampito — 37.69°N, 117.73°WCampito — 37.53°N, 117.53°WCampito — 37.02°N, 117.96°WCampito — 36.91°N, 118.06°WCampito — 37.72°N, 117.31°WCampito — 37.30°N, 118.15°WCampito — 37.24°N, 118.16°WCampito — 37.27°N, 118.09°WMural Tah — 50.27°N, 119.27°WMural Tah — 53.03°N, 119.23°WMural Tah — 53.18°N, 119.13°WSekwi — 63.44°N, 129.37°WSekwi — 63.37°N, 129.13°WSekwi — 63.62°N, 128.63°WPuerto Blanco — 30.42°N, 111.93°WPuerto Blanco — 30.42°N, 111.96°WOld Dominion Limestone — 48.55°N, 117.90°WAddy Quartzite — 48.36°N, 117.84°WWood Canyon — 36.15°N, 116.97°WCarrara — 35.88°N, 116.16°W

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

Nevadia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Nevadia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

73 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Nevadia, 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

15 references

Each of the 39 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. 3 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 Nevadia

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNevadiidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1910