Nuculacea

No picture of Nuculacea 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 Nuculacea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NuculidaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Nuculida
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Nuculida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 287 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.2 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 448.8 Mya to 154.8 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 7 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 7 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 7 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 7 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 1 of 7 occurrences455–444 Mya — about 3 occurrences444–434 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences169–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence445.2 Mya157.9 Mya455 Mya149 Mya

7 occurrences of Nuculacea on record, most of them in the Ordovician. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

7 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

5 formations

Wenallt — 51.83°N, 3.58°WGlyn — 52.93°N, 3.18°WKellaways Clay — 53.50°N, 0.33°WOxford Clay — 53.50°N, 0.33°WAmpthill Clay — 53.50°N, 0.33°W

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The named rock units Nuculacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nuculacea and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Nuculacea and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

136 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Nuculacea, 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 7 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 Nuculacea 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 Nuculacea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nuculacea 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 itNuculida through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1824