Nucula solitaria
No picture of Nucula solitaria 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 solitaria, 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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Nucula solitaria 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
2 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
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The named rock units Nucula solitaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nucula solitaria and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Nucula solitaria and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Acila (Truncacila) demessa2 sites
- Baculites occidentalis2 sites
- Biplica obliqua2 sites
- Agnomyax monilifer1 site
- Amphidonte (Amphidonte) parasitica1 site
- Anapachydiscus peninsularis1 site
- Anchura falciformis1 site
- Anglonautilus catarinae1 site
- Anomia lineata1 site
- Asaphis undulata1 site
- Ataphrus compactus1 site
- Atira ornatissima1 site
- Baculites inornatus1 site
- Calliostoma radiatum1 site
- Calva (Calva) peninsularis1 site
- Calva (Calva) varians1 site
- Caryocorbula traskii1 site
- Clisocolus cordatus1 site
- Clisocolus dubius1 site
- Crassatella conradiana1 site
- Cucullaea (Cyphoxis) truncata1 site
- Cymbophora ashburnerii1 site
- Didymoceras vancouverensis1 site
- Discohelix leana1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nucula solitaria, 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- Cretaceous geology of Lower California1
- Section II. Cretaceous Fossils. Part I. Description of New Species1
Each 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 solitaria 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 solitaria, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucula solitaria 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. Gabb 1869