Lucinisca nassula

Lucinisca nassula

Uncredited · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LuciniscaPBDB
Diet
chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinisca
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Lucinisca
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinisca
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 645 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Pliocene — about 0 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene — about 18 of 18 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 18 occurrences2.7–2.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.6–2.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.5–2.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.4–2.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.3–2.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.2–2.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.1–2.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.0–1.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.8–1.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.7–1.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.6–1.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.5–1.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.4–1.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.3–1.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.2–1.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.1–1.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.0–924 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences924 ka–821 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences821 ka–719 ka Mya — about 0.5 occurrences719 ka–616 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences616 ka–513 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences513 ka–411 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences411 ka–308 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308 ka–205 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences205 ka–103 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence103 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences774 ka129 ka3.08 Mya0 Mya

18 occurrences of Lucinisca nassula on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

18 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

6 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WCoffee Mill Hammock — 26.73°N, 81.51°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°W

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The named rock units Lucinisca nassula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lucinisca nassula and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lucinisca nassula and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

619 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Lucinisca nassula, 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

8 references

Each of the 18 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Lucinisca nassula

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Lucinisca nassula · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:311596

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itLucinisca through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1846)