Nucleospira

Nucleospira

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NucleospiridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Athyrididina
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Athyrididina
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Athyrididina
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 149 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 493 occurrencesSilurian — about 196 of 493 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 270 of 493 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 26 of 493 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 493 occurrencesPermian446–441 Mya — about 2 occurrences441–435 Mya — about 25 occurrences435–429 Mya — about 80 occurrences429–423 Mya — about 58 occurrences423–417 Mya — about 62 occurrences417–411 Mya — about 45 occurrences411–406 Mya — about 19 occurrences406–400 Mya — about 13 occurrences400–394 Mya — about 13 occurrences394–388 Mya — about 58 occurrences388–382 Mya — about 83 occurrences382–376 Mya — about 2 occurrences376–370 Mya — about 1 occurrence370–365 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences365–359 Mya — about 4 occurrences359–353 Mya — about 8 occurrences353–347 Mya — about 5 occurrences347–341 Mya — about 7 occurrences341–335 Mya — about 3 occurrences335–330 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences330–324 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–312 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences312–306 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences289–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–277 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences277–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432.9 Mya283.3 Mya446 Mya271 Mya

493 occurrences of Nucleospira on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

493 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

163 formations

Ludlowville — 42.78°N, 78.79°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 77.76°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.88°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.81°WLudlowville — 42.88°N, 78.57°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 76.50°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.35°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.37°WLudlowville — 43.00°N, 79.00°WLudlowville — 42.77°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.75°N, 76.77°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.51°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.89°N, 76.75°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.34°WSkaneateles — 42.94°N, 76.25°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 76.21°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 75.85°WSkaneateles — 42.86°N, 76.14°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 76.99°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.09°WSkaneateles — 42.93°N, 75.55°WOnondaga — 39.65°N, 78.76°WOnondaga — 42.18°N, 73.95°WOnondaga — 42.08°N, 73.97°WOnondaga — 42.26°N, 73.90°WOnondaga — 41.93°N, 74.03°WOnondaga — 42.59°N, 74.93°WOnondaga — 42.65°N, 74.04°WOnondaga — 42.95°N, 76.17°WOnondaga — 42.00°N, 74.00°WOnondaga — 43.00°N, 75.00°WRoberts Mountain — 39.84°N, 116.35°WRoberts Mountain — 39.94°N, 116.32°WHenryhouse — 35.08°N, 98.24°WHenryhouse — 35.00°N, 97.00°WHenryhouse — 34.60°N, 97.03°WHenryhouse — 34.73°N, 96.68°WHenryhouse — 34.77°N, 96.67°WHenryhouse — 34.68°N, 96.76°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.04°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.75°N, 77.01°WMoscow — 42.83°N, 75.78°WMoscow — 42.65°N, 75.46°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WMoscow — 42.67°N, 76.95°WDenay Limestone — 39.22°N, 116.22°WDenay Limestone — 39.98°N, 116.27°WDenay Limestone — 39.55°N, 116.28°WPaprieniai — 55.25°N, 23.15°EPaprieniai — 55.20°N, 23.87°EPaprieniai — 56.00°N, 25.84°EPaprieniai — 55.67°N, 25.38°EKersadiou — 48.30°N, 4.25°WKersadiou — 48.29°N, 4.55°WMcColley Canyon — 40.13°N, 116.10°WMcColley Canyon — 40.16°N, 116.06°WMcColley Canyon — 39.93°N, 116.30°WMcColley Canyon — 39.60°N, 116.26°WRoberts Mountains — 39.94°N, 116.32°WRoberts Mountains — 39.90°N, 116.36°WRacine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WRacine — 43.05°N, 88.01°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WCanon de Caballeros — 23.77°N, 99.27°WRiga — 55.24°N, 23.51°ERiga — 55.08°N, 25.42°ERiga — 55.00°N, 23.30°ERiga — 54.65°N, 23.03°EBorden — 36.44°N, 88.06°WXiushan — 28.00°N, 108.00°EXiushan — 28.55°N, 108.85°ECape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WGeluva — 55.00°N, 23.30°EGeluva — 54.65°N, 23.03°EGeluva — 55.08°N, 25.42°EPozary — 49.93°N, 14.13°EPozary — 49.52°N, 13.50°EPozary — 50.00°N, 17.78°EMuch Wenlock — 52.03°N, 2.40°WMuch Wenlock — 53.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.00°N, 2.00°WMuch Wenlock — 52.60°N, 2.55°WDelorme — 62.38°N, 127.00°WBlue Fiord — 76.30°N, 99.00°WBlue Fiord — 77.00°N, 90.00°WWaldron Shale — 39.45°N, 85.67°WUpper Kaochaitien — 26.63°N, 106.80°E

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The named rock units Nucleospira has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 139 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 69 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nucleospira and its relatives

Devonian

Where Nucleospira and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

2,222 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 453 sites for Nucleospira, and this reads 240 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

155 references

Each of the 493 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. 143 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 Nucleospira

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
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 itNucleospiridae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1859