Nilssonia princeps
No picture of Nilssonia princeps 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 Nilssonia princeps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NilsoniaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 161.5 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Nilssonia princeps on record, most of them in the Late 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
11 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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 Nilssonia princeps has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nilssonia princeps and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Nilssonia princeps and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
126 taxa- Todites indicus9 sites
- Ptilophyllum acutifolium8 sites
- Marattiopsis macrocarpa6 sites
- Morrisia rajmahalensis6 sites
- Rajmahalia paradoxa6 sites
- Sphenopteris5 sites
- Sphenopteris rajmahalensis5 sites
- Taeniopteris spatulata5 sites
- Dadoxylon rajmahalense4 sites
- Equisetum rajmahalense4 sites
- Pterophyllum morrisianum4 sites
- Coniopteris hymenophylloides3 sites
- Dictyozamites indicus3 sites
- Elatocladus3 sites
- Elatocladus conferta3 sites
- Gleichenia gleichenoides3 sites
- Gymnospermae3 sites
- Nilssonia fissa3 sites
- Sphenopteris hislopii3 sites
- Araucarites2 sites
- Bennetticarpus2 sites
- Brachyphyllum expansum2 sites
- Cladophlebis2 sites
- Cladophlebis srivastavae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Nilssonia princeps, 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 11 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
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No picture of Nilssonia princeps 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 Nilssonia princeps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nilssonia princeps 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 itNilsonia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Oldham and Morris 1862)