Nanonavis breweriana

Nanonavis breweriana

Cossmann, Maurice · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
NanonavisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 21 of 41 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 41 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 41 occurrences134–132 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 2 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 3 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–106 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 1 occurrence88–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–83 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125.77 Mya72.2 Mya134 Mya65 Mya

41 occurrences of Nanonavis breweriana on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

41 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

8 formations

Budden Canyon — 40.47°N, 122.61°WBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.55°WBudden Canyon — 40.43°N, 122.65°WLadd — 33.69°N, 117.61°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.65°WMoreno — 37.85°N, 121.71°WMoreno — 36.90°N, 120.85°WChatsworth — 34.20°N, 118.69°WForbes — 38.95°N, 122.01°WPanoche — 35.88°N, 120.10°WJalama — 34.51°N, 120.44°WTuna Canyon — 34.07°N, 118.56°W

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The named rock units Nanonavis breweriana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nanonavis breweriana and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Nanonavis breweriana and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

199 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Nanonavis breweriana, 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 41 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 Nanonavis breweriana

Source
GBIF
Credit
Cossmann, Maurice
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nanonavis breweriana 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 itNanonavis through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)