Nihilichnus nihilicus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NihilichnusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Crocodylia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Mesoeucrocodylia

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 4 occurrences232–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–216 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences216–209 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences209–201 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–62 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences62–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.7–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences201.4 Mya129 ka232 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Nihilichnus nihilicus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

4 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

1 formation

  • Zbaszynek Beds/Wielichowo Beds FormationSlaskie · PL · 227.3–201.4 Mya1
Zbaszynek Beds/Wielichowo Beds — 50.68°N, 18.65°E

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The named rock units Nihilichnus nihilicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nihilichnus nihilicus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Nihilichnus nihilicus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nihilichnus nihilicus, 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

3 references

Each of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Nihilichnus nihilicus 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 Nihilichnus nihilicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nihilichnus nihilicus 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.

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What may have been alongside itNihilichnus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mikulas et al. 2006