Norella refractifrons
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NorellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Norella refractifrons on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
14 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
7 formations
- Junzihe Formation4
- Dorgicse Formation2
- Schreyeralm Formation2
- Wetterstein Formation1
- Schreyeralm Formation1
- Buchenstein Formation1
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The named rock units Norella refractifrons has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Norella refractifrons and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Norella refractifrons and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Flexoptychites flexuosus4 sites
- Leiophyllites suessi3 sites
- Monophyllites wengensis3 sites
- Paraceratites trinodosus3 sites
- Pexidella marmorea3 sites
- Schwagerispira mojsisovicsi3 sites
- Acrochordiceras carolinae2 sites
- Arthaberites alexandrae2 sites
- Balatonites gemmatus2 sites
- Balatonites zitteli2 sites
- Danubites michaelis2 sites
- Discoptychites dux2 sites
- Discoptychites seebachi2 sites
- Flexoptychites acutus2 sites
- Gymnites incultus2 sites
- Mentzelia mentzeli2 sites
- Mentzelia ptychitiphila2 sites
- Norites gondola2 sites
- Procladiscites brancoi2 sites
- Ptychites eusomus2 sites
- Ptychites oppeli2 sites
- Ptychites opulentus2 sites
- Trigonirhynchella2 sites
- Volirhynchia projectifrons2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Norella refractifrons, 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
5 references- Brachiopoden der alpinen Trias6
- Brachiopoda4
- The Anisian/Ladinian boundary in the Vászoly section (Balaton Highland, Hungary)2
- An Anisian Wetterstein reef in north Hungary1
- Geologie der Umgebung von Sarajevo1
Each of the 14 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 Norella refractifrons 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 Norella refractifrons, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Norella refractifrons 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNorella through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bittner 1890)