Nosella
Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
- ProteutheriaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Nosella on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
2 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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.
Nosella and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Nosella and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Adapisorex1 site
- Adapisorex gaudryi1 site
- Adapisoriculus minimus1 site
- Afrodon ivani1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Arctocyon primaevus1 site
- Arctocyonides arenae1 site
- Arctocyonides trouessarti1 site
- Berrulestes pellouini1 site
- Berrulestes phelizoni1 site
- Bustylus germanicus1 site
- Camptognathosaurus walbeckensis1 site
- Condylarthra1 site
- Dipavali petri1 site
- Gigarton meyeri1 site
- Hainina1 site
- Lacertidae1 site
- Liotomus marshi1 site
- Louisina marci1 site
- Neoplagiaulax1 site
- Orthaspidotherium edwardsi1 site
- Pagonomus1 site
- Paschatherium1 site
- Paschatherium dolloi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nosella, 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- A new late Paleocene micromammal fauna from Montchenot (Paris Basin). Preliminary results1
- New mammals from south-central Pyrenees (Tremp Formation, Spain) and their bearing on late Paleocene marine-continental correlations.1
Each of the 2 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Nosella
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nosella was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itProteutheria through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. López-Martínez and Peláez-Campomanes 1999