Nyella immoderata
No picture of Nyella immoderata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nyella immoderata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalmeraraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ptychopariidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 5.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 504.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Nyella immoderata on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
9 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Nyella immoderata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nyella immoderata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Nyella immoderata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Albertellina aspinosa5 sites
- Ursinella major4 sites
- Albertella fritzi3 sites
- Albertelloides kitai3 sites
- Mexicella granulata3 sites
- Panacus palmeri3 sites
- Volocephalina variosa3 sites
- Palmerara granosa2 sites
- Delamarella brevispinaspis1 site
- Mexicella mexicana1 site
- Mexicella stator1 site
- Ptarmiganoides hexacantha1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Nyella immoderata, 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- Early Middle Cambrian Albertella biozone trilobites of the Pioche Shale, southeastern Nevada8
- Physical Stratigraphy and Trilobite Biostratigraphy of the Carrara Formation (Lower and Middle Cambrian) in the Southern Great Basin1
Each of the 9 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
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No picture of Nyella immoderata was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Nyella immoderata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nyella immoderata 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPalmerara through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Palmer and Halley 1979