Nicolella pterygoidea

Nicolella pterygoidea

Orviku, Karl · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
NicolellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 7.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 472.1 Mya and 464.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 22 of 22 occurrencesOrdovician472–472 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 1 occurrence469–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–468 Mya — about 1 occurrence468–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–467 Mya — about 1 occurrence467–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–466 Mya — about 1 occurrence466–466 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472.6 Mya463.8 Mya

22 occurrences of Nicolella pterygoidea 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

22 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

3 formations

Pakri Sandstone — 59.40°N, 24.56°EPakri Sandstone — 59.38°N, 27.76°EPakri Sandstone — 59.37°N, 24.13°EPakri Sandstone — 59.48°N, 26.48°EPakri Sandstone — 59.03°N, 23.71°EPakri Sandstone — 59.38°N, 24.04°EPakri Sandstone — 59.42°N, 27.01°ELoobu — 59.48°N, 26.48°EObukhovo — 59.90°N, 32.35°E

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The named rock units Nicolella pterygoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nicolella pterygoidea and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Nicolella pterygoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Nicolella pterygoidea, 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 reference

Each of the 22 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 Nicolella pterygoidea

Source
GBIF
Credit
Orviku, Karl
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Nicolella pterygoidea 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 itNicolella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pander 1830)