Nucula (Leionucula) hunickeni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LeionuculaPBDB
- 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
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Nucula (Leionucula) hunickeni 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
6 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Nucula (Leionucula) hunickeni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nucula (Leionucula) hunickeni and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Nucula (Leionucula) hunickeni and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Acesta1 site
- Acesta webbi1 site
- Australoneilo1 site
- Australoneilo casei1 site
- Cassis1 site
- Cucullaea ellioti1 site
- Eunaticina1 site
- Hoploparia stokesi1 site
- Isselicrinus1 site
- Lahillia huberi1 site
- Lahillia larseni1 site
- Leionucula1 site
- Lucina1 site
- Marshallaria1 site
- Marwickia woodburnei1 site
- Mesalia1 site
- Metanephrops jenkinsi1 site
- Nucula (Leionucula) suboblonga1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Paleopsephaea1 site
- Periploma1 site
- Pinna1 site
- Pleurotomaria1 site
- Struthiochenopus nordenskjoldi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Nucula (Leionucula) hunickeni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Early Paleocene Mollusks of Antarctica: Systematics, Paleoecology and Paleobiogeographic Significance5
- Latest Cretaceous/Earliest Tertiary Transition on Seymour Island, Antarctica1
Each of the 6 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Nucula (Leionucula) hunickeni 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 Nucula (Leionucula) hunickeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucula (Leionucula) hunickeni 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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What may have been alongside itLeionucula through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zinsmeister and Macellari 1988