Nucula storrsi

No picture of Nucula storrsi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 storrsi, 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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143.1 Mya125.77 Mya149.8 Mya120.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Nucula storrsi 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

2 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

Budden Canyon — 40.47°N, 122.61°WStony Creek — 39.89°N, 122.62°W

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The named rock units Nucula storrsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

23 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nucula storrsi, 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 reference

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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Nucula storrsi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 storrsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nucula storrsi 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 timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stanton 1895