Nilsonia orientalis
No picture of Nilsonia orientalis 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 Nilsonia orientalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NilsoniaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 149.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Nilsonia orientalis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
5 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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.
Nilsonia orientalis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Nilsonia orientalis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Elatides curvifolia5 sites
- Gleichenites5 sites
- Phlebopteris5 sites
- Pseudoctenis eathiensis5 sites
- Pterophyllum5 sites
- Czekanowskia4 sites
- Hausmannia buchii4 sites
- Pachypteris lanceolata4 sites
- Sagenopteris4 sites
- Todites4 sites
- Kylikipteris3 sites
- Matonidium goepperti3 sites
- Phoenicopsis3 sites
- Sphenopteris3 sites
- Tritaenia scotica3 sites
- Angiopteris2 sites
- Araucarites2 sites
- Aspidistes2 sites
- Baiera muensteriana2 sites
- Brachyphyllum2 sites
- Cycadopteris2 sites
- Dichopteris2 sites
- Equisetum2 sites
- Ginkgo2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Nilsonia orientalis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Nilsonia orientalis 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 Nilsonia orientalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itNilsonia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Heer 1878