Notosaria nigricans

Notosaria nigricans

C. Duffy · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
NotosariaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 18.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences1.9–1.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.3–640 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences640 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence15.9 Mya129 ka19.2 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Notosaria nigricans on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

2 formations

Tainui Shell Bed — 39.95°S, 174.98°EPinnacle Sand — 39.95°S, 174.98°E

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The named rock units Notosaria nigricans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Notosaria nigricans and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Notosaria nigricans and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Notosaria nigricans, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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

Media content1

Picture of Notosaria nigricans

Credit
C. Duffy
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Notosaria nigricans was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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 itNotosaria through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1846)