Nucula (Nucula) ovula

Nucula (Nucula) ovula

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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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 48 occurrencesPaleocene — about 3 of 48 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 45 of 48 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 8 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 8 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences61.66 Mya41.03 Mya66.6 Mya37.1 Mya

48 occurrences of Nucula (Nucula) ovula on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

48 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

9 formations

Gosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 32.68°N, 83.42°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 87.58°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.25°N, 88.43°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.32°N, 86.00°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.45°N, 85.63°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 31.31°N, 86.48°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 30.64°N, 96.52°WNanjemoy — 37.52°N, 76.79°WMcBean — 33.50°N, 80.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.66°N, 92.90°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WPorters Creek — 31.97°N, 87.20°WPendleton — 31.47°N, 93.50°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°W

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The named rock units Nucula (Nucula) ovula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nucula (Nucula) ovula and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nucula (Nucula) ovula and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

892 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Nucula (Nucula) ovula, 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

10 references

Each of the 48 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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CT scan

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

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lea 1833)