Onychocella

Onychocella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OnychocellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Cheilostomata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Gymnolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 92 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 774 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 69 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 20 of 69 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 69 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 69 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 69 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 26 of 69 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 69 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 69 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 7 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–61 Mya — about 6 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–44 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 7 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences93.9 Mya1.8 Mya102 Mya0 Mya

69 occurrences of Onychocella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

69 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

17 formations

Bilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°ERed Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.67°EMoin — 9.99°N, 83.04°WBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WCraie de Villedieu — 45.00°N, 0.37°EBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WKolymbia — 36.25°N, 28.17°EBruderndorf — 48.47°N, 16.30°ELithothamnium Limestone — 48.47°N, 16.30°ERosario — 32.09°N, 116.86°WMoodys Branch — 32.32°N, 90.16°WKunrade Chalk — 50.87°N, 5.98°EGlenaulin clay — 37.93°S, 141.41°ENiebla Calcarenite — 37.35°N, 6.67°WFulra — 23.70°N, 68.78°EKhari Nadi — 23.40°N, 68.80°EBeer Head Limestone — 50.69°N, 3.10°W

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The named rock units Onychocella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Onychocella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Onychocella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,085 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Onychocella, 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

32 references

Each of the 69 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. 20 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 Onychocella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Onychocella 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 itOnychocellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jullien 1882