Palaeoneilo elliptica

Palaeoneilo elliptica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeoneiloPBDB
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 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 184.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 182.9 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 58 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 6 of 58 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 58 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 20 of 58 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 28 of 58 occurrencesEarly Jurassic253–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–248 Mya — about 1 occurrence248–246 Mya — about 5 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences244–241 Mya — about 1 occurrence241–239 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–234 Mya — about 9 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 3 occurrences232–229 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences225–222 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences220–217 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences213–210 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences201–198 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences198–196 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences196–193 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 6 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 17 occurrences247 Mya184.2 Mya253 Mya182 Mya

58 occurrences of Palaeoneilo elliptica on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

58 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

15 formations

São Gião — 40.06°N, 8.46°WCassian — 46.52°N, 11.96°ECassian — 46.53°N, 11.92°ECassian — 46.68°N, 12.15°ECassian — 46.54°N, 11.62°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.51°N, 11.76°ECassian — 46.59°N, 12.26°EAmaltheenton — 52.06°N, 8.34°EAmaltheenton — 49.35°N, 11.36°EShiyuan — 31.75°N, 104.75°EHanwang — 31.50°N, 104.23°ENarawara — 35.45°N, 135.32°EZhitkov — 43.03°N, 131.93°EBlue Lias — 51.17°N, 3.27°WSierra de Santa Rosa — 30.71°N, 112.55°WNarabara — 35.37°N, 135.18°EKuahongdong — 29.43°N, 103.57°EArroyo Malo — 34.83°S, 69.89°WLiujiagou — 34.65°N, 107.91°EÁgua de Madeiros — 39.73°N, 9.04°WXiaomeidong — 36.93°N, 101.69°E

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The named rock units Palaeoneilo elliptica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeoneilo elliptica and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Palaeoneilo elliptica and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

782 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Palaeoneilo elliptica, 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

23 references

Each of the 58 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. 11 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 elliptica

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Palaeoneilo elliptica 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 itPalaeoneilo through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1837)