Nucula amica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NuculaPBDB
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 391 million years on record.

The record covers at least 463.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Ordovician — about 12 of 62 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 62 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 62 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 62 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 62 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 62 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 62 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 62 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 62 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 62 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 62 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 62 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 50 of 62 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 62 occurrences477–463 Mya — about 2 occurrences463–449 Mya — about 6 occurrences449–436 Mya — about 5 occurrences86–72 Mya — about 4 occurrences72–58 Mya — about 46 occurrences463.3 Mya72.2 Mya477 Mya58 Mya

62 occurrences of Nucula amica on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

62 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

17 formations

Providence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.86°N, 85.95°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.82°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WPrairie Bluff — 34.48°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.05°N, 86.99°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WOwl Creek — 34.93°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WSandy Hook — 40.37°N, 74.12°WSandy Hook — 40.41°N, 74.00°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WSarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°EChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.94°WCorsicana Marl — 30.30°N, 97.46°WCoffee Sand — 34.61°N, 88.60°WKosov — 50.08°N, 14.62°EDobrotiva — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°EVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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The named rock units Nucula amica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Nucula amica and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Nucula amica and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,331 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 58 sites for Nucula amica, 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

8 references

Each of the 62 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

Media content0

No picture of Nucula amica 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 amica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nucula amica 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 itNucula through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gardner 1916