Nuculana (Nuculana)

Nuculana (Nuculana)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NuculanaPBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae

Time the record covers

At least 205 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 211.18 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 15 of 116 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 116 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 116 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 116 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 116 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 116 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 116 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 116 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 8 of 116 occurrencesMiocene — about 27 of 116 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 116 occurrencesPleistocene — about 24 of 116 occurrences215–208 Mya — about 1 occurrence208–201 Mya — about 14 occurrences108–101 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences101–93 Mya — about 7 occurrences93–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–65 Mya — about 11 occurrences65–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences57–50 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–43 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences43–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–29 Mya — about 6 occurrences29–22 Mya — about 5 occurrences22–14 Mya — about 8 occurrences14–7.2 Mya — about 15 occurrences7.2–0 Mya — about 38 occurrences205.7 Mya11.7 ka215 Mya0 Mya

116 occurrences of Nuculana (Nuculana) on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

116 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

46 formations

Nayband — 32.38°N, 57.41°ENayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.50°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°Eopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°EKarai — 11.21°N, 78.98°ESan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WGakkhinskaya — 58.25°N, 158.75°EKakertskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°EPresumpscot — 43.64°N, 70.26°WPresumpscot — 43.50°N, 70.44°WJoe's River — 13.21°N, 59.56°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°WAmaninskaya — 58.00°N, 158.20°EKuluvenskaya — 58.50°N, 159.17°ENishikurosawa — 39.70°N, 140.12°EDaginskaya — 51.83°N, 143.17°EKurasiyskaya — 47.05°N, 142.06°EMatitukskaya — 54.16°N, 142.56°EVengeriyskaya — 54.16°N, 142.56°EVerkhneduyskaya — 49.11°N, 142.90°ENavidad — 33.93°S, 71.85°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WEtolonskaya — 58.42°N, 159.00°EKovachinskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°E

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The named rock units Nuculana (Nuculana) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nuculana (Nuculana) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Nuculana (Nuculana) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,506 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Nuculana (Nuculana), 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

39 references

Each of the 116 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. 27 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Nuculana (Nuculana)

Source
GBIF
Credit
harrier
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Nuculana pernula · NHMUK:ZOO:20180321

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 itNuculana through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Link 1807