Olenellus nevadensis

Olenellus nevadensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OlenellusPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Redlichiida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Redlichiida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Redlichiida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Olenellidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 42 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 16 of 16 occurrencesCambrian540–538 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences537–535 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences535–534 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences534–532 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences531–529 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences529–528 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences527–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–519 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences518–516 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 4 occurrences514–512 Mya — about 4 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 4 occurrences511–509 Mya — about 2 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences508–506 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences498–496 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences539.6 Mya496.2 Mya

16 occurrences of Olenellus nevadensis 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

16 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

5 formations

Carrara — 35.85°N, 116.23°WCarrara — 36.75°N, 117.07°WCarrara — 36.47°N, 116.75°WLatham — 34.54°N, 115.48°WLatham — 34.59°N, 115.52°WPioche Shale — 36.19°N, 115.01°WIlltyd — 65.09°N, 134.71°WHarkless — 37.84°N, 117.79°W

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The named rock units Olenellus nevadensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Olenellus nevadensis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Olenellus nevadensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Olenellus nevadensis, 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 16 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 Olenellus nevadensis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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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 itOlenellus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1910)