Nucula assiniboiensis
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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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Nucula assiniboiensis 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
9 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Pawkowki Formation7
- Foremost Formation · Belly River Group2
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The named rock units Nucula assiniboiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nucula assiniboiensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Nucula assiniboiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Corbula5 sites
- Cymbophora warrenana5 sites
- Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) nebrascana5 sites
- Cardium (Ethmocardium) ursaniense4 sites
- Liopistha (Cymella) montanensis4 sites
- Periploma johnseni4 sites
- Tancredia americana4 sites
- Yoldia dowlingi4 sites
- Ostrea albertensis3 sites
- Ostrea russelli3 sites
- Acirsa2 sites
- Anchura2 sites
- Dosiniopsis2 sites
- Entalis2 sites
- Pholadomya mclearni2 sites
- Tellina2 sites
- Tellinimera scitula2 sites
- Volsella wrighti2 sites
- Baculites1 site
- Baculites aquilaensis1 site
- Baculites asperiformis1 site
- Baculites mclearni1 site
- Baculites ovatus1 site
- Cymbophora nitidula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Nucula assiniboiensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 9 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 Nucula assiniboiensis 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 assiniboiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucula assiniboiensis 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. Russell and Landes 1937