Ningqiangolites
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeliolitidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Ningqiangolites on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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- Silurian100%
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 Ningqiangolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ningqiangolites and its relatives
SilurianWhere Ningqiangolites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Favosites3 sites
- Halysites3 sites
- Subalveolites3 sites
- Heliolites2 sites
- Holmophyllum2 sites
- Kodonophyllum2 sites
- Mesofavosites2 sites
- Propora2 sites
- Syringopora2 sites
- Tryplasma2 sites
- Amplexoides1 site
- Angopora hisingeri1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Calostylis1 site
- Caneagia sp.1 site
- Coenites1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cystiophyllum sp.1 site
- Cystiphyllum (Gyalophyllum)1 site
- Dictyosolenia bulla1 site
- Dictyosolenia multitabulata1 site
- Dictyosolenia xinjiangensis1 site
- Dokophyllum1 site
- Encrinurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ningqiangolites, 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 references- Correlation of the Silurian rocks of China3
- Biotic structure and morphology of patch reefs from South China (Ningqiang Formation, Telychian, Llandovery, Silurian)2
Each 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
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No picture of Ningqiangolites 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 Ningqiangolites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ningqiangolites 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 itHeliolitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. H.F. Chu 1975