Nicaniella (Nicaniella)

Nicaniella (Nicaniella)

Cossmann, Maurice · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NicaniellaPBDB
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 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 110 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 88 of 110 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 15 of 110 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 7 of 110 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 110 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 1 occurrence192–190 Mya — about 5 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 5 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 5 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 5 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 60 occurrences182–180 Mya — about 4 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences178–176 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences172–170 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences170–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–166 Mya — about 3 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 4 occurrences164–162 Mya — about 4 occurrences162–160 Mya — about 2 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 1 occurrence148–146 Mya — about 2 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences144–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184.2 Mya149.2 Mya203 Mya142 Mya

110 occurrences of Nicaniella (Nicaniella) on record, most of them in the Early 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

110 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

11 formations

Kalchreuth — 49.55°N, 11.13°EHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°ESão Gião — 40.06°N, 8.46°WTurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WKehalia — 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°WBir Maghara — 30.69°N, 33.70°EBir Maghara — 30.66°N, 33.35°EArousiah — 30.71°N, 33.50°EArousiah — 30.70°N, 33.37°EKorallenoolith — 52.13°N, 10.02°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.48°N, 0.35°WMasajid — 30.70°N, 33.37°E

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The named rock units Nicaniella (Nicaniella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 65 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nicaniella (Nicaniella) and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Nicaniella (Nicaniella) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

495 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 98 sites for Nicaniella (Nicaniella), 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

12 references

Each of the 110 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

Media content1

Picture of Nicaniella (Nicaniella)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Cossmann, Maurice
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nicaniella (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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What may have been alongside itNicaniella through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nicaniella 1945