Piania niniyurensis
No picture of Piania niniyurensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Piania niniyurensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PianiaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Piania niniyurensis 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
1 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
- Niniyur Formation · Niniyur Group1
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The named rock units Piania niniyurensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Piania niniyurensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Piania niniyurensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Acetabularia1 site
- Acicularia1 site
- Acicularia dyumatsenae1 site
- Acicularia indica1 site
- Clypeina sahnii1 site
- Corallina1 site
- Dissocladella1 site
- Dissocladella savitriae1 site
- Distichoplax1 site
- Indopolia satyavanti1 site
- Neomeria1 site
- Orioporella malaviae1 site
- Parachaetetes asvapatii1 site
- Solenopora1 site
- Sporolithon1 site
- Sporolithon lugeonii1 site
- Terquemella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Piania niniyurensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Piania niniyurensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Piania niniyurensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Piania niniyurensis 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 itPiania through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gowda 1959