Ennucula tenuis

Montagu, 1808 · CC0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

Also called

smooth nutclamPBDB

Sits inside

EnnuculaPBDB

Diet

deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculidae

Life habit

infaunalPBDB, for Nuculidae

Motility

facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculidae

Vision

blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Environment

coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculidae

• Late Triassic5%
• Pliocene14%
• Pleistocene62%
• Holocene19%

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.

Where Ennucula tenuis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Acila (Truncacila) cobboldae3 sites
• Aequipecten opercularis3 sites
• Arctica islandica3 sites
• Astarte compressa3 sites
• Cardita senilis3 sites
• Caryocorbula striata3 sites
• Gastrana laminosa3 sites
• Isocrassina basteroti3 sites
• Mya (Arenomya) arenaria3 sites
• Mya (Mya) truncata3 sites
• Mytilus edulis3 sites
• Nucula (Nucula) nucleus3 sites
• Palliolum tigrinum3 sites
• Spisula arcuata3 sites
• Abra alba2 sites
• Amyclina labiosa2 sites
• Aporrhais pespelecani2 sites
• Artemis lentiformis2 sites
• Astarte gracilis2 sites
• Astarte mutabilis2 sites
• Boreotrophon clathratus2 sites
• Buccinofusus costiferum2 sites
• Buccinum undatum2 sites
• Cancellaria coronata2 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Ennucula tenuis, 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.

• Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North AmericaRichards, 1962 · Transactions of the American Philosophocal Society · journal article9
• Wood, 1850A monograph of the Crag Mollusca, or, descriptions of shells from the middle and upper tertiaries of the East of England. Part II. Bivalves · book/book chapter3
• Molluscan palaeontology of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Kap Kobenhavn Formation, North GreenlandSimonarson et al., 1998 · Meddelelser om Gronland, Geoscience · serial monograph2
• Quaternary marine stratigraphy and geochronology in central West GreenlandBennike et al., 1994 · Boreas · journal article2
• Diversity and palaeoecology of a highly diverse Late Triassic marine biota from the Cassian Formation of north ItalyHausmann and Nützel, 2015 · Lethaia · journal article1
• Late-glacial marine invertebrate macrofossilsfrom Point Lepreau, New BrunswickMiller and McGovern, 1997 · Atlantic Geology · journal article1
• Stratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the Red Crag and Norwich Crag Formations between Aldeburgh and Sizewll, Suffolk, EnglandZalasiewicz et al., 1988 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences · journal article1
• New Mollusca from the Pleistocene of San Pedro, California - IIIBerry, 1947 · Bulletins of American Paleontology · journal article1
• Wood, 1882Third supplement to the Crag Mollusca comparing Testacea from the Upper Tertiaries of the east of England. Univalves and Bivalves · book/book chapter1

Each of the 21 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.

What may have been alongside itEnnucula through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Montagu 1808)