Neofordilla elegans
No picture of Neofordilla elegans 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 Neofordilla elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeofordillaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Modiomorphidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Modiomorphidae
Time the record covers
At most 7.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 445.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Neofordilla elegans on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
1 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Neofordilla elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Neofordilla elegans and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Neofordilla elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Allumettoceras1 site
- Anabarophyllum hirsutum1 site
- Beloitoceras1 site
- Cyrtophyllum1 site
- Glyptorthis1 site
- Lepidocycloides baikiticus1 site
- Monomerella1 site
- Paractinoceras canadensis1 site
- Rostricellula1 site
- Saffordia1 site
- Strophomena lethea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Neofordilla elegans, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Neofordilla elegans 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 Neofordilla elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Neofordilla elegans 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 itNeofordilla through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Krasilova 1977