Nucula (Nucula) nucleus

Nucula (Nucula) nucleus

Stichting Observation International · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
Nucula (Nucula)PBDB
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 least 165 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 57 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 57 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 57 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 57 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 57 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 57 occurrencesMiocene — about 32 of 57 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 57 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 57 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences166–160 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–11 Mya — about 28 occurrences11–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–0 Mya — about 24 occurrences165.3 Mya11.7 ka172 Mya0 Mya

57 occurrences of Nucula (Nucula) nucleus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

57 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

15 formations

Lillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°ERed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.35°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ECoralline Crag — 52.12°N, 1.55°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EKap Kobenhavn — 82.38°N, 21.00°WKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.28°ERhodes — 36.42°N, 28.20°EMaraldi Sandstone — 46.22°N, 12.80°ECalcaires de Caen — 49.19°N, 0.40°WPinczow — 50.53°N, 20.53°EWeglin — 50.72°N, 21.95°EWeglinek — 50.72°N, 21.95°ELychow — 50.69°N, 22.03°EPanchina — 43.57°N, 10.35°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°E

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The named rock units Nucula (Nucula) nucleus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nucula (Nucula) nucleus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Nucula (Nucula) nucleus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,119 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Nucula (Nucula) nucleus, 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

20 references

Each of the 57 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. 8 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 content2

Picture of Nucula (Nucula) nucleus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Observation International
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Nucula (Lamellinucula) crenulata · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:306096

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. (Linnaeus 1758)