Nursallia

Nursallia is an extinct genus of pycnodontid ray-finned fishes, ranging from the Late Cretaceous period until its extinction during the Eocene.

Nursallia

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
NursalliinaePBDB
Diet
durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 15 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 15 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 15 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 15 occurrencesEocene102–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–91 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93.9 Mya56 Mya102 Mya47 Mya

15 occurrences of Nursallia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

15 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

6 formations

Sannine — 34.06°N, 35.69°EScaglia Variegata Alpina — 45.28°N, 11.65°EScaglia Variegata Alpina — 45.92°N, 11.92°EAgua Nueva — 20.13°N, 97.63°WAgua Nueva — 26.75°N, 100.05°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WSannine Limestone — 34.13°N, 35.75°EPesciara — 45.60°N, 11.20°E

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The named rock units Nursallia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nursallia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Nursallia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

387 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Nursallia, 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

8 references

Each of the 15 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 Nursallia

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nursallia was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itNursalliinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blot 1987