Nangaops
No picture of Nangaops 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 Nangaops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtychopariidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Ptychopariidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 514.5 Mya and 504.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
35 occurrences of Nangaops 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
35 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
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The named rock units Nangaops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nangaops and its relatives
CambrianWhere Nangaops and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Balangcunaspis transversus1 site
- Bathynotus kueichouensis1 site
- Eodouposiella1 site
- Eoptychoparia nangaoensis1 site
- Kermanella1 site
- Kunmingaspis qiannanensis1 site
- Mufushania nankingensis1 site
- Olenoides hubeiensis1 site
- Oryctocephalites longus1 site
- Oryctocephalops guizhouensis1 site
- Probowmania balangensis1 site
- Probowmaniella lata1 site
- Protospongia1 site
- Qiannanagraulos costatus1 site
- Redlichia (Redlichia) takooensis longispina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nangaops, 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
6 references- Detailed trilobite biostratigraphy across the proposed GSSP for stage 5 ("Middle Cambrian" boundary) at the Wuliu-Zengjiayan section, Guizhou, China18
- A preliminary study on Lower-Middle Cambrian boundary and trilobite fauna at Balang, Taijiang, Guizhou, south China12
- Cambrian of the Hunan-Guizhou region, south China2
- Global standard stratotype-section and point (GSSP) for the conterminous base of the Miaolingian Series and Wuliuan Stage (Cambrian) at Balang, Jianhe, Guizhou, China1
- Discovery of oryctocephalid trilobites from the Tsinghsutung Formation (Duyunian Stage, Qiandongian Series, Cambrian), Jianhe County, Guizhou Province1
- Cambrian trilobite faunas of southwestern China1
Each of the 35 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 content0
No picture of Nangaops 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 Nangaops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nangaops 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 itPtychopariidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang et al. 1980