Cavellina nebrascensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CavellinaPBDB
Diet
detritivore, suspension feederPBDB, for Platycopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Platycopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Platycopida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 12 of 20 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 20 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 20 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 2 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 4 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 4 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 1 occurrence298.9 Mya254.14 Mya305 Mya251 Mya

20 occurrences of Cavellina nebrascensis on record. 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

20 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

10 formations

Elmdale — 38.37°N, 96.62°WElmdale — 39.17°N, 96.54°WDalong — 22.27°N, 107.69°ENeva — 38.37°N, 96.62°WNeva — 39.18°N, 96.59°WFort Riley — 39.06°N, 96.79°WWinfield — 38.42°N, 96.82°WClyde — 33.77°N, 99.10°WWakarusa — 38.94°N, 95.72°WFalls City — 39.17°N, 96.31°WAmericus — 38.63°N, 96.17°WTarkio — 38.92°N, 95.82°W

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

Found in the same rock

135 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Cavellina nebrascensis, 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

3 references

Each of the 20 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

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No picture of Cavellina nebrascensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Cavellina nebrascensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cavellina nebrascensis 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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What may have been alongside itCavellina through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Geinitz 1866)