Australoneilo

Australoneilo

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MalletiidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 66 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 66 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 41 of 66 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 14 of 66 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 66 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 11 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 20 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 8 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 4 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66 Mya41.03 Mya102 Mya33 Mya

66 occurrences of Australoneilo on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

66 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

11 formations

Jagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.70°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.83°S, 69.70°WRoca — 37.56°S, 69.85°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°W? — 51.15°S, 72.38°W? — 50.60°S, 72.50°WPebble Point — 38.70°S, 143.18°ERio Turbio — 51.53°S, 72.30°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WCerro Dorotea — 51.30°S, 72.32°W

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The named rock units Australoneilo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Australoneilo and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Australoneilo and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

412 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Australoneilo, 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

11 references

Each of the 66 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 Australoneilo

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Australoneilo was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zinsmeister 1984)