Nitellopsis

Nitellopsis is a genus of charophyte green algae. Some sources, including AlgaeBase, place it in the family Feistiellaceae. Others place it in the family Characeae.

Nitellopsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
FeistiellaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Charophyta
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Charophyta

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 25 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 25 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesMiocene — about 14 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 25 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–8.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence66 Mya3.6 Mya74 Mya1 Mya

25 occurrences of Nitellopsis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

25 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

10 formations

Tatrot — 30.73°N, 76.78°EArgiles d'lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EGlib Zegdou — 30.00°N, 4.00°WAl Khums — 30.50°N, 13.50°ESerra da Galga — 19.63°S, 47.23°WHuchpayacu — 7.21°S, 74.95°WPozo — 7.34°S, 74.95°WMortemer — 49.89°N, 0.83°ETurabi — 40.05°N, 43.73°EYalakdere — 40.61°N, 29.25°E

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The named rock units Nitellopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nitellopsis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Nitellopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

339 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Nitellopsis, 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

13 references

Each of the 25 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. 1 further reference is 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 Nitellopsis

Credit
Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 12:41, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nitellopsis 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itFeistiellaceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hy 1889