Nuculana amygdaloides
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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 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
4 occurrences of Nuculana amygdaloides on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Nuculana amygdaloides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nuculana amygdaloides and its relatives
EoceneWhere Nuculana amygdaloides and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
185 taxa- Abra (Syndosmya) splendens2 sites
- Atrina affinis2 sites
- Bathytoma granata2 sites
- Cassis2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Ditrupa2 sites
- Euspira glaucinoides2 sites
- Eutrephoceras (Simplicioceras) centrale2 sites
- Ficus2 sites
- Gemmula2 sites
- Graphularia wetherelli2 sites
- Heteranomia scabrosa2 sites
- Hoploparia gammaroides2 sites
- Murex2 sites
- Nucula2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Spiratella2 sites
- Surculites2 sites
- Surculites errans2 sites
- Terebratulina wardenensis2 sites
- Thyasira2 sites
- Turricula2 sites
- Turricula (Orthosurcula) teretrium2 sites
- Zanthopsis leachii2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nuculana amygdaloides, 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
4 references- The molluscan fauna of the Eocene Lillebælt clay, Denmark1
- Observations on the London Clay excavation at Aveley, Essex1
- A London Clay Section at Waterworks Corner, Woodford, Essex1
- On the London and Plastic Clay Formations of the Isle of Wight1
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Nuculana amygdaloides was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 amygdaloides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nuculana amygdaloides 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 itNuculana through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1827)