Nisusia

A picture published with the record for Nisusia.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
NisusiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Kutorginata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 486.85 Mya.

Cambrian — about 76 of 76 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 76 occurrences522–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 3 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 4 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 4 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 4 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 4 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 8 occurrences509–507 Mya — about 8 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 9 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 11 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 4 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 3 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 3 occurrences502–500 Mya — about 3 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 2 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 2 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 2 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences496–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences489–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516 Mya497 Mya521.7 Mya486.2 Mya

76 occurrences of Nisusia on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

76 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

33 formations

Burgess Shale — 51.44°N, 116.47°WBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WBurgess Shale — 51.38°N, 116.43°WParker Slate — 44.48°N, 73.21°WParker Slate — 44.74°N, 73.16°WKinzers — 40.04°N, 76.31°WKinzers — 40.44°N, 75.12°WKinzers — 40.05°N, 76.36°WKinzers — 39.96°N, 76.73°WShady — 36.85°N, 80.91°WStephen — 51.40°N, 116.48°WStephen — 51.34°N, 116.37°WBright Angel — 35.99°N, 113.82°WMonkton Quartzite — 44.54°N, 73.20°WDedebulak — 39.75°N, 72.00°EDedebulak — 40.40°N, 72.35°ESyys — 54.30°N, 90.75°EPentagon — 47.50°N, 113.13°WDamnation — 47.43°N, 113.07°WHillard — 64.82°N, 141.12°WKaili — 27.00°N, 107.00°ERanken Limestone — 19.63°S, 136.92°EMarjum Limestone — 38.88°N, 113.44°WMurrawong Creek — 31.30°S, 151.10°ECampito — 37.69°N, 117.73°WArrojos — 30.42°N, 111.93°WUpper Wheeler Shale — 40.00°N, 113.00°WTorgashino — 55.97°N, 92.92°EBalakhtison — 54.60°N, 91.35°EBalang — 26.65°N, 107.95°EWulongqing — 24.95°N, 102.80°ESinsk — 61.08°N, 126.58°E

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The named rock units Nisusia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nisusia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Nisusia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

439 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Nisusia, 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

35 references

Each of the 76 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. 23 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Nisusia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itNisusiidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1905