Nodosaria

Searched as Nodosaria mirabilis caucasica. The Paleobiology Database treats Nodosaria as the accepted name.

Nodosaria

Stichting Observation International · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NodosariidaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Nodosariidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera

Time the record covers

At least 5.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259.857 Mya254.14 Mya264.8 Mya251.4 Mya

3 occurrences of Nodosaria on record, most of them in the Permian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

3 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

3 formations

Khachik — 39.54°N, 45.43°EKhachik — 39.45°N, 45.23°EChangxing — 29.49°N, 106.40°E

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The named rock units Nodosaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Nodosaria and its relatives

Permian

Where Nodosaria and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

2,183 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1,114 sites for Nodosaria, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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 3 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

Media content3

Picture of Nodosaria

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Observation International
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Nodosaria sp. · l-cb

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itNodosariidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamarck 1812