Nucula ovata

Nucula ovata

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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 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 8 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 8 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100.5 Mya72.2 Mya114.1 Mya65.1 Mya

8 occurrences of Nucula ovata on record. 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

8 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

2 formations

marly chalk — 51.28°N, 21.90°Emarly chalk — 51.22°N, 21.43°Eopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°E

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The named rock units Nucula ovata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

197 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Nucula ovata, 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

3 references

Each of the 8 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 content1

Picture of Nucula ovata

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nucula ovata 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Phillips 1841