Nenoxites
Nenoxites is an extinct genus of Ediacaran ichnofossils described by Mikhail Fedonkin in 1973. The genus is monotypic; the only species to have been described is Nenoxites curvus.

Cvlcek · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
- IchnofossilsPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 97 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Nenoxites on record. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
- Khatyspyt Formation · Khorbusuonka Group2
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The named rock units Nenoxites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Khatyspytia grandis2 sites
- Anabylia improvisa1 site
- Annulatubus aff. flexuosus1 site
- Arborea longa1 site
- Aspidella1 site
- Aspidella costata1 site
- Aspidella hatyspytia1 site
- Aspidella terranovica1 site
- Beltanelloides1 site
- Charnia gracilis1 site
- Charnia masoni1 site
- Hiemalora pleiomorpha1 site
- Hiemalora stellaris1 site
- Kullingia concentrica1 site
- Nemiana simplex1 site
- Ovatoscutum concentricum1 site
- Palaeopascichnus1 site
- Yelovichnus gracilis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nenoxites, 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- Supplemental Data for Ediacaran Diversification Rates1
- Integrated approaches to terminal Proterozoic stratigraphy: an example from the Olenek Uplift, northeastern Siberia1
Each of the 2 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 Nenoxites
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Cvlcek
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nenoxites 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Nenoxites”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIchnofossils through time
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fedonkin 1973