Nuculana (Saccella) ochsneri

Not Nuculana (Saccella) ochsneri. This is Nuculana ochsneri (Anderson & Martin, 1914), a relative — both are Nuculanidae.
University of Washington Burke Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaccellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Saccella
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Saccella
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Saccella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
13 occurrences of Nuculana (Saccella) ochsneri on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
13 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Vaqueros Formation5
- Temblor Formation4
- Round Mountain Formation1
- Blakeley Formation1
- Freeman Silt Formation1
- Topanga Canyon Formation · Topanga Group1
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The named rock units Nuculana (Saccella) ochsneri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nuculana (Saccella) ochsneri and its relatives
MioceneWhere Nuculana (Saccella) ochsneri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
181 taxa- Chione (Chionopsis) temblorensis5 sites
- Clementia conradiana4 sites
- Macoma (Psammacoma) arctata4 sites
- Polinices (Neverita) reclusianus andersoni4 sites
- Sinum scopulosum4 sites
- Anadara osmonti3 sites
- Balanus3 sites
- Crepidula praerupta3 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) margaritana3 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata3 sites
- Macoma nasuta3 sites
- Mactromeris albaria3 sites
- Mactromeris sectoris3 sites
- Miltha (Miltha) sanctaecrucis3 sites
- Trophosycon ocoyanum3 sites
- Turricula buwaldana3 sites
- Califrapana vaquerosensis2 sites
- Cancellaria (Euclia) dalliana2 sites
- Chlamys sespeensis2 sites
- Crenomytilus expansus2 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinella) merriami2 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinia) whitneyi2 sites
- Kewia fairbanksi2 sites
- Macoma (Rexithaerus) sespeensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Nuculana (Saccella) ochsneri, 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
7 references- The Vaqueros Formation, Lower Miocene of California. I. Paleontology5
- Stratigraphy and paleontology of the marine Neogene formations of the Coalinga region, California3
- Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California1
- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington1
- New mollusks from the Round Mountain Silt (Temblor) Miocene of California1
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California1
- Neocene record in the Temblor Basin, California, and Neocene deposits of the San Juan District, San Luis Obispo County1
Each of the 13 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. 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 content1

Picture of Nuculana ochsneri (Anderson & Martin, 1914)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- University of Washington Burke Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nuculana (Saccella) ochsneri 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 itSaccella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson and Martin 1914)