Nubeculariidae

Nubeculinella bigoti Cushman, 1930, a relative of Nubeculariidae — not Nubeculariidae itself

Not Nubeculariidae. This is Nubeculinella bigoti Cushman, 1930, a relative — both are Nubeculariidae.

Armand Hary · 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
CornuspiroideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Environment
hypersaline,marinePBDB, for Miliolina

Time the record covers

At least 248 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 774 ka.

Permian — about 0 of 223 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 223 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 223 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 26 of 223 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 9 of 223 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 30 of 223 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 70 of 223 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 223 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 44 of 223 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 14 of 223 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 223 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 223 occurrencesMiocene — about 9 of 223 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 223 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 223 occurrences257–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–240 Mya — about 3 occurrences240–231 Mya — about 6 occurrences231–223 Mya — about 4 occurrences223–214 Mya — about 5 occurrences214–206 Mya — about 8 occurrences206–197 Mya — about 7 occurrences197–188 Mya — about 3 occurrences188–180 Mya — about 3 occurrences180–171 Mya — about 4 occurrences171–163 Mya — about 27 occurrences163–154 Mya — about 56 occurrences154–146 Mya — about 11 occurrences146–137 Mya — about 5 occurrences137–128 Mya — about 8 occurrences128–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–94 Mya — about 17 occurrences94–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–77 Mya — about 20 occurrences77–69 Mya — about 6 occurrences69–60 Mya — about 7 occurrences60–51 Mya — about 9 occurrences51–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–8.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences8.6–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences251.1 Mya2.58 Mya257 Mya0 Mya

223 occurrences of Nubeculariidae on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

223 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

44 formations

Argiles a Lopha gregarea — 49.30°N, 0.07°WCalcaire a oolithes ferrugineuses — 49.30°N, 0.07°WSundays River — 33.75°S, 25.07°ESundays River — 33.78°S, 25.43°ESundays River — 33.68°S, 25.83°ETrieste Karst Limestone — 45.78°N, 13.65°ECoral Rag de Trouville — 49.30°N, 0.07°WCoral Rag de Trouville — 49.37°N, 0.08°EDachstein — 47.58°N, 14.47°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°EDachstein — 48.00°N, 16.42°ETrigonia clavellata — 50.80°N, 2.28°WMisfah — 23.17°N, 57.06°EEsiri — 37.53°N, 29.73°EDjangura — 43.94°N, 41.50°EOsmington Oolite — 51.75°N, 1.25°WOsmington Oolite — 50.63°N, 2.37°WMt. Facito — 40.48°N, 15.65°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.98°EPlassen — 47.58°N, 13.92°ESchnöll — 47.70°N, 13.17°EKuta — 6.03°S, 144.84°EBaucina — 37.82°N, 12.80°ELower Monte Bardia — 40.27°N, 9.62°EPuch — 49.23°N, 19.32°EPuch — 49.26°N, 19.06°EUhrov — 49.12°N, 18.45°EKimmeridge Clay — 50.63°N, 2.35°WNothe Grits — 50.80°N, 2.28°WWest Walton — 52.18°N, 0.12°EVellerat — 47.30°N, 7.32°EOta Limestone — 39.07°N, 9.00°W

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The named rock units Nubeculariidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 113 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nubeculariidae and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Nubeculariidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,632 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 153 sites for Nubeculariidae, 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

69 references

Each of the 223 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. 57 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 Nubeculinella bigoti Cushman, 1930

Source
GBIF
Credit
Armand Hary
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nubeculariidae 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 itCornuspiroidea through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jones 1875