Naticopsis inornata

No picture of Naticopsis inornata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Naticopsis inornata itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Naticopsis inornata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NaticopsisPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Naticopsidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Naticopsis
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Naticopsis
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Naticopsis
Environment
marinePBDB, for Naticopsis

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 342.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 335.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 3 of 4 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferous389–387 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–340 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences336–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya342.9 Mya389 Mya334 Mya

4 occurrences of Naticopsis inornata on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

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

2 formations

Dawson Bay — 52.78°N, 100.95°WDawson Bay — 52.48°N, 99.98°WDawson Bay — 52.84°N, 100.69°WDiamond Peak — 39.48°N, 115.93°W

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The named rock units Naticopsis inornata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Naticopsis inornata and its relatives

Devonian

Where Naticopsis inornata and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Naticopsis inornata, 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

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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Naticopsis inornata was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Naticopsis inornata itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Naticopsis inornata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNaticopsis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whiteaves 1892