Nicaniella

Nicaniella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AstartinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 139 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 4 of 470 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 156 of 470 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 158 of 470 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 142 of 470 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 470 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 470 occurrencesPaleocene — about 2 of 470 occurrences231–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–219 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences219–213 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–208 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences208–202 Mya — about 3 occurrences202–196 Mya — about 2 occurrences196–190 Mya — about 17 occurrences190–185 Mya — about 38 occurrences185–179 Mya — about 96 occurrences179–173 Mya — about 4 occurrences173–167 Mya — about 16 occurrences167–162 Mya — about 134 occurrences162–156 Mya — about 29 occurrences156–150 Mya — about 69 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 49 occurrences144–139 Mya — about 4 occurrences139–133 Mya — about 2 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences110–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences64–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence205.7 Mya66 Mya231 Mya58 Mya

470 occurrences of Nicaniella on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

470 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

54 formations

Chari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WAlcobaca — 38.42°N, 9.22°WAlcobaca — 39.55°N, 9.00°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WKalchreuth — 49.55°N, 11.13°ESobral — 39.10°N, 9.27°WSpilsby Sandstone — 53.37°N, 0.05°WSpilsby Sandstone — 53.48°N, 0.35°WSpilsby Sandstone — 52.78°N, 0.52°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.13°N, 0.05°EAgoudim — 32.24°N, 4.26°WSot de Chera — 41.47°N, 1.42°WSot de Chera — 41.25°N, 1.08°WGadhada — 23.50°N, 70.50°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°ESão Gião — 40.06°N, 8.46°WTurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WBarahona Limestone — 41.93°N, 3.15°WBarahona Limestone — 40.67°N, 1.20°WAmaltheenton — 49.79°N, 11.04°EAmaltheenton — 50.06°N, 10.79°EAmaltheenton — 49.35°N, 11.36°EKehalia — 30.71°N, 33.37°EKehalia — 30.71°N, 33.50°EKehalia — 30.68°N, 33.30°ETurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WTurmiel — 40.40°N, 1.50°WWashtawa — 23.50°N, 70.50°ETrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WTrigonia clavellata — 50.60°N, 2.45°WArgile de Villerville — 49.37°N, 0.08°EBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WBlackdown Greensand — 50.87°N, 3.29°WLourinhã — 39.10°N, 9.27°WKimmeridge-clay — 51.32°N, 2.23°WOxford Clay — 52.00°N, 1.00°WGoradongar — 23.50°N, 70.50°E

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The named rock units Nicaniella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 123 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nicaniella and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Nicaniella and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,197 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 275 sites for Nicaniella, and this reads 240 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

53 references

Each of the 470 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. 41 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 Nicaniella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nicaniella 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chavan 1945