Nucula simplex
No picture of Nucula simplex 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 simplex, 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 least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
10 occurrences of Nucula simplex on record, most of them in the Early 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
10 occurrences- Early 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.
Nucula simplex and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Nucula simplex and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
131 taxa- Ammonoidea9 sites
- Arca9 sites
- Astarte9 sites
- Cardium9 sites
- Panopea9 sites
- Venus9 sites
- Diplopodia (Pseudodiadema)8 sites
- Eurotrigonia caudata8 sites
- Holaster8 sites
- Lamellaerhynchia rostriformis8 sites
- Ostrea8 sites
- Pholadomya elongata8 sites
- Trigonia carinata8 sites
- Cymatoceras neocomiense7 sites
- Cymatoceras pseudoelegans7 sites
- Holectypus7 sites
- Homoeorhynchia acuta7 sites
- Janita7 sites
- Multizonopora7 sites
- Mytilus7 sites
- Pleurotomaria7 sites
- Pseudodiadema rotulare7 sites
- Serpula7 sites
- Toxaster7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Nucula simplex, 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
2 references- Jura Vaudois et Neuchatelois9
- Les terrains secondaires dans le massif du Moghara à l’Est de l’isthme de Suez1
Each of the 10 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 simplex 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 simplex, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucula simplex 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNucula through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deshayes 1842