Neilus sansomae
No picture of Neilus sansomae 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 Neilus sansomae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeilusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Charadriiformes
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.7 Mya and 15.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Neilus sansomae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
- Bannockburn Formation · Manuherikia Group4
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The named rock units Neilus sansomae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Neilus sansomae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Neilus sansomae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Aegotheles1 site
- Anserinae1 site
- Aptornis proasciarostratus1 site
- Charadriiformes1 site
- Collocalia1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Dinornithiformes1 site
- Gekkota1 site
- Hakawai melvillei1 site
- Lacertilia1 site
- Laridae1 site
- Leiopelma acricarina1 site
- Leiopelma miocaenale1 site
- Mammalia1 site
- Manuherikia douglasi1 site
- Manuherikia lacustrina1 site
- Manuherikia minuta1 site
- Matanas enrighti1 site
- Matuku otagoense1 site
- Miostrepera canora n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Miotadorna sanctibathansi1 site
- Mystacina miocenalis1 site
- Mystacinidae1 site
- Nelepsittacus daphneleeae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Neilus sansomae, 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
1 referenceEach 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 Neilus sansomae 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 Neilus sansomae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Neilus sansomae 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 itNeilus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. De Pietri et al. 2016