Newsomites

Newsomites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PachydomellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 143 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Silurian — about 5 of 21 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 14 of 21 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 21 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 21 occurrencesPermian436–431 Mya — about 1 occurrence431–425 Mya — about 3 occurrences425–420 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences420–414 Mya — about 2 occurrences414–409 Mya — about 3 occurrences409–403 Mya — about 2 occurrences403–398 Mya — about 3 occurrences398–392 Mya — about 3 occurrences376–370 Mya — about 1 occurrence288–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–271 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426.7 Mya283.3 Mya436 Mya271 Mya

21 occurrences of Newsomites on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

21 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

Shanda Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°EBateaobao — 41.25°N, 109.75°ESalairka Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°EChochal — 15.25°N, 90.21°WCoumiac — 43.43°N, 3.05°EVizhay — 61.30°N, 60.13°EToshem — 59.57°N, 59.98°EKarpinsk — 59.57°N, 59.98°E

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The named rock units Newsomites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Newsomites and its relatives

Devonian

Where Newsomites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

258 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Newsomites, 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

6 references

Each of the 21 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Newsomites

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Newsomites 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 itPachydomellidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.