Nectocaris pteryx

No picture of Nectocaris pteryx was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Nectocaris pteryx itself, so it was not used. 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 Nectocaris pteryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NectocarisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nectocaris
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Nectocaris
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nectocaris

Time the record covers

At least 6.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 509.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 505.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesCambrian522–521 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516 Mya509.7 Mya521.5 Mya504.8 Mya

6 occurrences of Nectocaris pteryx on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

6 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

3 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.43°N, 116.47°WYuanshan — 24.84°N, 102.41°EYuanshan — 24.81°N, 102.58°EMarsden Sandstone — 35.58°S, 137.50°E

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

Nectocaris pteryx and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Nectocaris pteryx and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

104 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nectocaris pteryx, 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

3 references

Each of the 6 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

Media content0

No picture of Nectocaris pteryx was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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

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 Nectocaris pteryx, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nectocaris pteryx 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 itNectocaris through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conway Morris 1976