Nasutimena undulosa

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
- NasutimenaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Strophomenida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Nasutimena undulosa 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
9 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
- Bad Cache Rapids Formation4
- Amadjuak Formation · Bad Cache Rapids Group3
- Red River Formation2
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The named rock units Nasutimena undulosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nasutimena undulosa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Nasutimena undulosa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
195 taxa- Receptaculites6 sites
- Rafinesquina5 sites
- Echinodermata4 sites
- Eoleperditia4 sites
- Ephippiorthoceras4 sites
- Strophomena4 sites
- Amplexopora3 sites
- Catenipora3 sites
- Cyclendoceras3 sites
- Cyrtogomphoceras3 sites
- Cyrtophyllum3 sites
- Diestoceras3 sites
- Hesperorthis3 sites
- Kochoceras cuneiforme3 sites
- Maclurina manitobensis3 sites
- Maclurites3 sites
- Platystrophia3 sites
- Sowerbyella3 sites
- Trochonema3 sites
- <Astraeospongid>2 sites
- <Isotelid>2 sites
- Actinoceras2 sites
- Austinella2 sites
- Billingsaria parvituba2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Nasutimena undulosa, 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
4 references- Ordovician megafauna, Melville Peninsula, southeastern District of Franklin5
- Ordovician cephalopod fauna of Baffin Island2
- Late Ordovician Articulate Brachiopods from the Red River and Stony Mountain Formations, Southern Manitoba1
- Evolution of the Late Ordovician orthid brachiopod Gnamptorhynchos Jin, 1989 from Platystrophia King, 1850, in North America1
Each of the 9 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 Nasutimena undulosa
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nasutimena undulosa 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 itNasutimena through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Roy 1941)