Nasepia altae
No picture of Nasepia altae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Nasepia altae firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NasepiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Erniettomorpha
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Nasepia
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Nasepia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Erniettomorpha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Nasepia
Time the record covers
At most 97 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Nasepia altae 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
- Urusis Formation · Schwarzrand Group2
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The named rock units Nasepia altae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Archaeichnium haughtoni1 site
- Ariichnus vagus1 site
- Arimasia germsi1 site
- Calyptrina striata1 site
- Helminthopsis1 site
- Treptichnus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nasepia altae, 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- Ediacaran paleobiology and biostratigraphy of the Nama Group, Namibia, with emphasis on the erniettomorphs, tubular and trace fossils, and a new sponge, Arimasia germsi n. gen. n. sp.1
- The stratigraphy and paleontology of the lower Nama Group, South West Africa1
Each of the 2 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 Nasepia altae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Nasepia altae firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Nasepia altae 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 itNasepia through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Germs 1972