Nicolella patens
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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 least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 451.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 453.9 Mya to 450.5 Mya.
5 occurrences of Nicolella patens 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
5 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Nicolella patens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nicolella patens and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Nicolella patens and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Boreadorthis3 sites
- Camerella3 sites
- Chasmops3 sites
- Dalmanellidae3 sites
- Howellites wesenbergensis3 sites
- Leptaena3 sites
- Platystrophia crassoplicata3 sites
- Rafinesquina3 sites
- Sowerbyella3 sites
- Chasmops extensa2 sites
- Clinambon anomalus2 sites
- Dictyonema2 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena) rugosoides2 sites
- Leptaena wesenbergensis2 sites
- Longvillia asmusi2 sites
- Platystrophia2 sites
- Platystrophia dentata2 sites
- Sampo2 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) tenera2 sites
- Vellamo ambisulcata2 sites
- Vellamo emarginata2 sites
- Vellamo magna2 sites
- Hisingerella1 site
- Illaenus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Nicolella patens, 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
2 referencesEach of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Nicolella patens was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nicolella patens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nicolella patens was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
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. Oraspold 1956