Nucula munsteri
No picture of Nucula munsteri 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 munsteri, 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 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Nucula munsteri 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
2 occurrencesThese 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 munsteri and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Nucula munsteri and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Ostrea complicata2 sites
- Ostrea spondyloides2 sites
- Avicula crispata1 site
- Leptochondria albertii1 site
- Myacites grandis1 site
- Myacites obtusus1 site
- Myophoria (Costatoria) goldfussi1 site
- Neomorphotis comta1 site
- Nucula excavata1 site
- Nucula goldfussii1 site
- Nuculana minuta1 site
- Ostrea placunoides1 site
- Ostrea reniformis1 site
- Ostrea subanomia1 site
- Pseudocorbula gregaria1 site
- Pseudocorbula incrassata1 site
- Terquemia difformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nucula munsteri, 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 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Nucula munsteri 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 munsteri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucula munsteri was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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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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 1863