Nezzazata

Nezzazata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NezzazatidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Textulariina
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Textulariina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 20 of 61 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 41 of 61 occurrencesLate Cretaceous134–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences130–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 1 occurrence125–123 Mya — about 5 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 4 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 12 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 12 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 12 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–90 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125.77 Mya83.6 Mya134 Mya71 Mya

61 occurrences of Nezzazata 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

61 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

14 formations

Trieste Karst Limestone — 45.78°N, 13.65°Ecalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.47°Wcalcaires à Choffatelles et Dasycladacées — 38.78°N, 9.28°WLes calcaires à choffatelles et dasycladacées — 38.81°N, 9.47°WLes calcaires à choffatelles et dasycladacées — 38.73°N, 9.42°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.43°N, 9.35°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.77°N, 9.30°WAbu Qada/Raha — 28.68°N, 32.42°EMal Paso — 18.48°N, 100.70°WAl Hassanat — 23.53°N, 57.93°ECima delle Murelle — 42.10°N, 14.17°EBari Limestone — 41.12°N, 16.48°ECalcaires et marnes à Choffatelles — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires à Rudistes de Boca do Chapim — 38.40°N, 9.22°WGrès inférieur et assises à Orbitolines — 38.73°N, 9.47°WTisje — 11.03°N, 49.05°EPolat — 37.98°N, 31.45°E

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The named rock units Nezzazata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nezzazata and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Nezzazata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

217 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Nezzazata, 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

20 references

Each of the 61 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. 8 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 Nezzazata

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itNezzazatidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.