Palaeoneilo

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MalletiidaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 336 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 141 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 139.1 Mya.
1,301 occurrences of Palaeoneilo on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
1,301 occurrences- Ordovician5%
- Silurianunder 1%
- Devonian55%
- Carboniferous5%
- Permian10%
- Early Triassic2%
- Middle Triassic1%
- Late Triassic7%
- Early Jurassic13%
- Middle Jurassicunder 1%
- Late Jurassicunder 1%
- Early Cretaceousunder 1%
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
246 formations
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group203
- Geneseo Formation · Genesee Group86
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group55
- Skaneateles Formation · Hamilton Group32
- Mahantango Formation · Hamilton Group27
- Tully Formation · Hamilton Group26
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The named rock units Palaeoneilo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 222 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 142 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Palaeoneilo and its relatives
DevonianWhere Palaeoneilo and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
1,325 taxa- Crinoidea71 sites
- Bryozoa60 sites
- Mucrospirifer mucronatus56 sites
- Leiorhynchus49 sites
- Eldredgeops rana46 sites
- Productella44 sites
- Rhipidomella43 sites
- Ambocoelia41 sites
- Camarotoechia38 sites
- Mediospirifer audaculus38 sites
- Actinopteria36 sites
- Nuculites36 sites
- Greenops boothi35 sites
- Orbiculoidea35 sites
- Ambocoelia umbonata33 sites
- Cypricardella32 sites
- Goniophora32 sites
- Mucrospirifer31 sites
- Schuchertella31 sites
- Bellerophontoidea30 sites
- Chonetoidea30 sites
- Douvillina30 sites
- Parallelodon30 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus29 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 949 sites for Palaeoneilo, and this reads 240 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
228 references- The Dynamics of Rapid, Asynchronous Biotic Turnover in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin of New York105
- Using GIS to unlock the interactions between biogeography, environment, and evolution in middle and Late Devonian brachiopods and bivalves77
- Work with Thayer collections, Yale Peabody Accession 7112, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology70
- The classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York60
- Quantitative community analysis: Recurrent group and cluster techniques applied to the fauna of the Upper Devonian Sonyea Group, New York38
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis33
- The Stratigraphical Palaeontology, ammonites excluded, of the Stowell Park borehole25
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mahantango Formation in south-central Pennsylvania24
- Reductions in body size of benthic macroinvertebrates as a precursor of the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic) extinction event in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal22
- Palökologie von Benthos-Gemeinschaften im oberen Pliensbach (Amaltheenton) von Kalchreuth (Mittelfranken)22
- Bivalves from the upper part of the Permian in southern Hunan, China22
- Redefinition, Stratigraphy and Depostional Environments of the Mottville Member (Hamilton Group) in Central and Eastern New York22
Each of the 1,301 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. 216 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 Palaeoneilo
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMalletiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall and Whitfield 1869)