Palaeoneilo smithi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeoneiloPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 469.4 Mya and 458.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Palaeoneilo smithi on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
8 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
3 formations
- Nora Formation4
- Stairway Formation3
- Stokes Siltstone Formation · Larapinta Group1
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The named rock units Palaeoneilo smithi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Palaeoneilo smithi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Palaeoneilo smithi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Sthenodonta eastii3 sites
- Sthenodonta passmoreae3 sites
- Copidens browni2 sites
- Cyrtodonta wattii2 sites
- Helicotoma2 sites
- Noradonta shergoldi2 sites
- ? Mordiolopsis <sp. A>1 site
- Basilicus thorntoni1 site
- Carolinites1 site
- Clathrospira1 site
- Ctenodonta youngi1 site
- Cyrtodonta1 site
- Lophospira1 site
- Lycophron howchini1 site
- Prosopiscus1 site
- Raphistomina1 site
- Technophorus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Palaeoneilo smithi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 8 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Palaeoneilo smithi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Palaeoneilo smithi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itPalaeoneilo through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pojeta and Gilbert-Tomlinson 1977