Nahecaris
Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhinocaridinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Phyllocarida
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Phyllocarida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Phyllocarida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 399.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Nahecaris on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
7 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
4 formations
- Hunsrück Slate Formation3
- Merzâ- Akhsaï Formation · Rich Group2
- Hunsrueck Slate Formation1
- Khebchia Formation1
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The named rock units Nahecaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nahecaris and its relatives
DevonianWhere Nahecaris and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
205 taxa- Acanthocrinus2 sites
- Chondrites2 sites
- Chotecops2 sites
- Conularia2 sites
- Ctenocrinus2 sites
- Ctenodonta2 sites
- Diamenocrinus2 sites
- Gissocrinus2 sites
- Mimagoniatites fecundus2 sites
- Nautiloidea2 sites
- Orthoceras2 sites
- Prototaxites2 sites
- Tityosteus rieversi2 sites
- Zaphrenthis2 sites
- ? Protaxites loganii1 site
- Acanthocrinus rex1 site
- Anetoceras aff. hunsrueckianium1 site
- Anetoceras arduennense1 site
- Antihomocrinus1 site
- Aparchites1 site
- Archaeogastropoda1 site
- Archasterina cornuta1 site
- Arcichnus saltatus1 site
- Arduspirifer arduennensis prolatestriatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Nahecaris, 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
5 references- Zlíchovian faunas with early ammonoids from Morocco and their use for the correlation of the eastern Anti-Atlas and the western Dra Valley2
- The fossils of the Hunsrück Slate: Marine life in the Devonian2
- Ecological Change during the early Emsian (Devonian) in the Tafilalt (Morocco),the Origin of the Ammonoidea,and the First African Pyrgocystid Edrioasteroids,Machaerids and Phyllocarids1
- An atypical fauna in the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Germany1
- Pflanzen im Hunsrueckschiefer1
Each of the 7 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 Nahecaris
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Dwergenpaartje
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nahecaris 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.
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What may have been alongside itRhinocaridina through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.