Niuchangella meitanensis

No picture of Niuchangella meitanensis 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 Niuchangella meitanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NiuchangellaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Scharyiidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At most 4.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.2 Mya and 440.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesSilurian445–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445.7 Mya440 Mya

2 occurrences of Niuchangella meitanensis 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

2 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

2 formations

Wulipo Bed — 27.70°N, 107.40°EWeiba — 27.62°N, 104.82°E

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The named rock units Niuchangella meitanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Niuchangella meitanensis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Niuchangella meitanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Niuchangella meitanensis, 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 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Niuchangella meitanensis 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 Niuchangella meitanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Niuchangella meitanensis 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 itNiuchangella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang 1974