Nucinella ovalina
No picture of Nucinella ovalina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Nucinella ovalina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NucinellaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Nucinellidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nucinellidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nucinellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Nucinella ovalina 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
2 occurrencesThese 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 Nucinella ovalina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nucinella ovalina and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Nucinella ovalina and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Acteon1 site
- Alvania1 site
- Amalda atrebatum1 site
- Ampullella adurni1 site
- Amygdalum simplex1 site
- Anisocycla scalarina1 site
- Anomia anomialis1 site
- Antalis angusta1 site
- Antalis constricta1 site
- Aporrhais clarendonensis1 site
- Aporrhais sowerbii1 site
- Archicypraea prisca1 site
- Arctica planata1 site
- Bathytoma granata1 site
- Bonellitia laeviuscula1 site
- Bonellitia subevulsa1 site
- Bouryia cylindrata1 site
- Bouryia distensa1 site
- Bouryia minor1 site
- Bouryia roberti1 site
- Cantharus (Eocantharus) morrisii1 site
- Cerithiella elongata1 site
- Cerithiopsis discreta1 site
- Cimomia imperialis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nucinella ovalina, 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
2 references- The Early Eocene London Clay Formation mollusc fauna of the former Bursledon Brickworks, Lower Swanwick, Hampshire1
- Notes on the Nucinellidae (Pelecypoda) with description of a new species from the Eocene of Oregon1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Nucinella ovalina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Nucinella ovalina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucinella ovalina was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNucinella through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cossmann 1887