Pseudoheligmus nigeriensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudoheligmusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Pseudoheligmus nigeriensis 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- 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pseudoheligmus nigeriensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudoheligmus nigeriensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Pseudoheligmus nigeriensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Deltoidonautilus molli2 sites
- Heligmotenia molli2 sites
- Alectryonia martinsi1 site
- Calyptraea nigeriensis1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Chenopus (Maussenetia) dimorphospira1 site
- Crassostrea soudanensis1 site
- Cubitostrea multicostata1 site
- Gisortia brevis1 site
- Lucina1 site
- Lucina menardi1 site
- Lyrischapa soudanense1 site
- Operculina canalifera1 site
- Panopaea sahariensis1 site
- Pycnodonta rarilamella1 site
- Rawya pharaonis1 site
- Sigmesalia fasciata1 site
- Spondylus quadricostatus1 site
- Velates schmideli1 site
- Voluta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pseudoheligmus nigeriensis, 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
2 referencesEach 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. 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
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No picture of Pseudoheligmus nigeriensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Pseudoheligmus nigeriensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudoheligmus nigeriensis 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 itPseudoheligmus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Newton 1905)