Nuculana (Scaeoleda)
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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 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
14 occurrences of Nuculana (Scaeoleda) on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
14 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
4 formations
- Dry Creek Sands Formation7
- Ascot Formation4
- Malua Formation · Matamaute Group1
- Muddy Creek Formation1
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The named rock units Nuculana (Scaeoleda) 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.
Nuculana (Scaeoleda) and its relatives
MioceneWhere Nuculana (Scaeoleda) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
286 taxa- Limopsis6 sites
- Diastoma5 sites
- Divalucina cumingi5 sites
- Placamen5 sites
- Tucetona5 sites
- Chlamys antiaustralis4 sites
- Cyclocardia (Arcturellina)4 sites
- Linga (Bellucina)4 sites
- Lissarca4 sites
- Macoma4 sites
- Nassarius (Hinia)4 sites
- Notocorbula ephamilla4 sites
- Polinices (Conuber)4 sites
- Rissoina4 sites
- Bedeva3 sites
- Chioneryx3 sites
- Clanculus3 sites
- Cucullaea corioensis3 sites
- Ennucula3 sites
- Eucrassatella3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Leiopyrga3 sites
- Notocorbula adelaidensis3 sites
- Phasianella3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Nuculana (Scaeoleda), 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
5 references- The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide Plains. Part II - Pelecypoda7
- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia4
- Catalogue of Australian Tertiary Mollusca (except chitons)1
- Fossiles Néogénes et Quaternaires des Nouvelles-Hébrides1
- The lamellibranchs of the Older Tertiary of Australia (part 1)1
Each of the 14 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
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No picture of Nuculana (Scaeoleda) 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 Nuculana (Scaeoleda), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nuculana (Scaeoleda) 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 itNuculana through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Iredale 1924)