Nucella

Nucella, common name dog whelks or dog winkles, is a genus of small to medium-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ocenebrinae which is part of the large family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Nucella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OcenebrinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 214 occurrencesOligocene — about 5 of 214 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 214 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 38 of 214 occurrencesPleistocene — about 152 of 214 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–4.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 31 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 31 occurrences1.2–0 Mya — about 112 occurrences27.3 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

214 occurrences of Nucella 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

214 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

38 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°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.52°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.84°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.05°S, 70.79°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.27°S, 70.91°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.12°S, 70.91°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.45°S, 70.85°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.69°S, 70.89°WEstratos de Caldera — 27.70°S, 70.97°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WVaqueros — 34.04°N, 120.04°WVaqueros — 34.93°N, 119.06°WVaqueros — 35.25°N, 120.06°WVaqueros — 35.28°N, 120.13°WEmpire — 43.39°N, 124.28°WEmpire — 43.43°N, 124.23°WEmpire — 42.84°N, 124.56°WSan Diego — 32.49°N, 117.12°WSan Margarita — 37.05°N, 122.07°WSan Margarita — 37.06°N, 122.06°WAstoria — 44.73°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 43.40°N, 124.28°WMerced — 43.39°N, 124.28°WMerced — 47.35°N, 124.29°WMerced — 37.39°N, 122.17°WElk River — 42.74°N, 124.49°WPleito — 34.99°N, 119.19°WBredasdorp — 33.88°S, 18.45°EPancho Rico — 36.13°N, 121.02°WPancho Rico — 36.16°N, 120.97°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.10°S, 71.13°WDepósitos Litorales — 28.38°S, 71.17°WTomioka — 42.77°N, 143.02°EMammaliferous Crag — 52.63°N, 1.35°WRed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ENorwich Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°EFoxen Mudstone — 34.86°N, 120.50°WWilson Grove — 38.34°N, 122.84°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°W

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The named rock units Nucella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 93 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nucella and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Nucella and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,625 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 121 sites for Nucella, 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

66 references

Each of the 214 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. 54 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 Nucella

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Bolten 1798)