Neithea morrisi
No picture of Neithea morrisi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Neithea morrisi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeitheaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pectinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pectinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pectinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Neitheidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At least 1.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 113.2 Mya.
10 occurrences of Neithea morrisi on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
10 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
5 formations
- Amba Aradam Formation1
- Calcaires et marnes à Choffatelles Formation1
- Assises à Orbitolines Formation1
- Calcaires récifaux supérieurs Formation1
- Marno-calcaires à Heteraster oblongus Formation1
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The named rock units Neithea morrisi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Neithea morrisi and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Neithea morrisi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
99 taxa- Heteraster5 sites
- Palorbitolina5 sites
- Ceratostreon tuberculiferum4 sites
- Salenia4 sites
- Choffatella decipiens3 sites
- Mayncina3 sites
- Miliolidae3 sites
- Moutonithyris dutempleana3 sites
- Naticidae3 sites
- Sellithyris sella3 sites
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) boussingaulti2 sites
- Asciocythere2 sites
- Cythereis2 sites
- Cytherella2 sites
- Exogyra2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Heteraster oblongus2 sites
- Monopleura2 sites
- Nezzazata2 sites
- Nucleolites2 sites
- Orbitolina2 sites
- Pholadomya2 sites
- Psilothyris tamarindus2 sites
- Pyrina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Neithea morrisi, 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
5 references- Recherches géologiques sur le Crétacé inférieur de l'Estremadura (Portugal)6
- Stratigraphic evidence for an Early Aptian sea-level fluctuation: the Graua Limestone of south-eastern Ethiopia1
- Adaptyxis n.gen. (Umboniidae, Nerineacea, Gastropoda) from the Mirdita Zone of Albania; remarks on the early phylogeny of the Nerineacea1
- Note sur la stratigraphie et la paléontologie de l'Aptien de Bordj Oultem, région de Bou Sâada (Dép. d'Alger), Algérie1
- Les terrains secondaires dans le massif du Moghara à l’Est de l’isthme de Suez1
Each of the 10 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 Neithea morrisi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Neithea morrisi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Neithea morrisi 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 itNeithea through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pictet and Renevier 1858)