Nicolella crabbi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NicolellaPBDB
- 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 most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.2 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Nicolella crabbi 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
7 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Nicolella crabbi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nicolella crabbi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Nicolella crabbi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Neoplatystrophia deani5 sites
- Glyptorthis splendens4 sites
- Katastrophomena agrestis4 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) semiovalis4 sites
- Sampo transversa4 sites
- Sulevorthis humilidorsatus4 sites
- Onniella jonesi3 sites
- Triplesia hintsae3 sites
- Cryptothyris magnifica2 sites
- Dolerorthis intercostata2 sites
- Giraldiella2 sites
- Kozlowskites nuntius2 sites
- Leangella (Leangella) sholeshookensis2 sites
- Zygospira hicksi2 sites
- Boreadorthis sheehani1 site
- Christiania nilssoni1 site
- Drummuckina1 site
- Eopholidostrophia (Megapholidostrophia) mediocostalis1 site
- Fardenia gwaliae1 site
- Foliomena folium1 site
- Gunnarella mcdermotti1 site
- Harknessella1 site
- Kullervo grandis1 site
- Mackerrovia jinei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Nicolella crabbi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Nicolella crabbi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nicolella crabbi 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 itNicolella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cocks 2014