Nummus similis
No picture of Nummus similis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Nummus similis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NummusPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Acritarcha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Acritarcha
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Nummus similis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
5 occurrences- Late Cretaceous20%
- Paleocene80%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Nummus similis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nummus similis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Nummus similis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Cymatiosphaera4 sites
- Proxapertites4 sites
- Pterospermella4 sites
- Pterospermella australiensis4 sites
- Lecaniella3 sites
- Leiosphaeridia3 sites
- Liliacidites3 sites
- Liliacidites variegatus3 sites
- Longapertites3 sites
- Paralecaniela sp.3 sites
- Senoniasphaera inornata3 sites
- Ulmodeipites patagonicus3 sites
- Zygospora spp.3 sites
- Batiacasphaera2 sites
- Glaphyrocysta2 sites
- Manumilela rotunda2 sites
- Ovoidites2 sites
- Spiniferella cornuta2 sites
- Achomosphaera1 site
- Araucariacites australis1 site
- Baltisphaeridium angulosum1 site
- Cerebrocysta1 site
- cf. Muratodinium fimbriatum1 site
- Cycadopites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Nummus similis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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
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No picture of Nummus similis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Nummus similis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Nummus similis 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.
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What may have been alongside itNummus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cookson and Eisenack 1960)