Nucula excavata
No picture of Nucula excavata 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 excavata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 10 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Nucula excavata on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
1 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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.
Nucula excavata and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Nucula excavata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Leptochondria albertii1 site
- Myacites grandis1 site
- Myacites obtusus1 site
- Neomorphotis comta1 site
- Nucula goldfussii1 site
- Nucula munsteri1 site
- Ostrea complicata1 site
- Ostrea placunoides1 site
- Ostrea reniformis1 site
- Ostrea spondyloides1 site
- Ostrea subanomia1 site
- Pseudocorbula gregaria1 site
- Pseudocorbula incrassata1 site
- Terquemia difformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Nucula excavata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Nucula excavata 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 excavata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucula excavata 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 Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goldfuss 1837