Nanopsis nanella
No picture of Nanopsis nanella 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 Nanopsis nanella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NanopsisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.4 Mya and 469.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Nanopsis nanella on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
4 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Nanopsis nanella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nanopsis nanella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Nanopsis nanella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Bienvillia angelini2 sites
- Acrotreta1 site
- Archaeorthis christianiae1 site
- Broeggeria salteri1 site
- Ceratopyge1 site
- Conophrys pusilla1 site
- Nileus1 site
- Niobe (Niobella) obsoleta1 site
- Parabolinella lata1 site
- Sinuitella norvegica1 site
- Slemmestadoceras attavus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nanopsis nanella, 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
2 references- Lower Ordovician Ostracods from the Oslo region, Norway3
- Trilobites of the Tremadoc Bjørkåsholmen Formation in the Oslo Region, Norway1
Each of the 4 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 Nanopsis nanella 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 Nanopsis nanella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nanopsis nanella 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 itNanopsis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Moberg and Segerberg 1906)