Nubecularia

Nubecularia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NubeculariinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Nubeculariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Nubeculariidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Nubeculariidae
Environment
hypersaline,marinePBDB, for Miliolina

Time the record covers

At least 234 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 774 ka.

Middle Triassic — about 2 of 51 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 5 of 51 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 51 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 13 of 51 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 51 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 51 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 51 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 13 of 51 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 51 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 51 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 51 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 51 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences230–222 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences222–213 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences213–205 Mya — about 3 occurrences205–197 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences172–164 Mya — about 13 occurrences164–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–148 Mya — about 3 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 1 occurrence131–123 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 3 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–57 Mya — about 9 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 5 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.2–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences237 Mya2.58 Mya246 Mya0 Mya

51 occurrences of Nubecularia on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

51 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

12 formations

Dachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°ESundays River — 33.75°S, 25.07°ESundays River — 33.68°S, 25.83°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.98°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.92°EPuch — 49.23°N, 19.32°EPuch — 49.26°N, 19.06°EUhrov — 49.12°N, 18.45°EMt. Facito — 40.48°N, 15.65°ENovaglie — 39.87°N, 18.38°ERenggeri-Ton — 45.95°N, 5.55°EFatra — 49.15°N, 19.60°ESciliar Dolomite — 46.42°N, 12.13°ERhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°E

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The named rock units Nubecularia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nubecularia and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Nubecularia and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

814 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Nubecularia, 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

23 references

Each of the 51 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 Nubecularia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNubeculariinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.