Nephrotheca

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NovitatidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 504.5 Mya to 450.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 508.2 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 9 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 7 of 9 occurrencesOrdovician509–507 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences507–505 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences505–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–501 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences501–499 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences475–472 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–466 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504.5 Mya450.1 Mya509 Mya444 Mya

9 occurrences of Nephrotheca 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

9 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

8 formations

Upper Fezouata — 27.88°N, 11.42°WUpper Fezouata — 27.82°N, 11.40°WSarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°EDobrotiva — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELower Ktaoua — 31.15°N, 5.10°WTannenknock — 50.20°N, 11.56°EKraluv Dvur — 50.05°N, 14.47°EExsulans Limestone — 55.71°N, 13.35°EMójcza Limestone — 50.83°N, 20.68°E

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

Nephrotheca and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Nephrotheca and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

284 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Nephrotheca, 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

8 references

Each of the 9 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 content0

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

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Nephrotheca 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 Nephrotheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nephrotheca 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 itNovitatidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marek 1966