Lucinisca nuttalli

Lucinisca nuttalli

Conrad, 1837 · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
Nuttall's lucinePBDB
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 97 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 97 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 97 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 62 of 97 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 53 occurrences15.98 Mya129 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

97 occurrences of Lucinisca nuttalli 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

97 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

19 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.55°WImperial — 33.41°N, 116.06°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WVaqueros — 33.54°N, 117.78°WVaqueros — 33.55°N, 117.82°WVaqueros — 34.07°N, 118.71°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WSan Pedro — 33.93°N, 117.95°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.77°N, 120.48°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WYsidro — 24.58°N, 112.00°WSan Diego — 32.49°N, 117.12°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.86°WQuaternary terrace — 33.79°N, 118.41°WMedill — 34.04°N, 118.40°WTopanga Canyon — 34.13°N, 118.57°WTopanga — 34.07°N, 118.71°W

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The named rock units Lucinisca nuttalli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lucinisca nuttalli and its relatives

Pleistocene

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

Found in the same rock

1,304 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 83 sites for Lucinisca nuttalli, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

43 references

Each of the 97 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. 31 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 Lucinisca nuttalli

Credit
Conrad, 1837
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lucinisca nuttalli 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1837)