Nuculana curvirostris

Nuculana curvirostris

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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 211 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 8 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 8 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 8 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–7.1 Mya — about 5 occurrences227.3 Mya15.98 Mya242 Mya7 Mya

8 occurrences of Nuculana curvirostris 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

8 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

1 formation

Santa Clara — 28.58°N, 109.67°WSanta Clara — 28.50°N, 110.30°W

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The named rock units Nuculana curvirostris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nuculana curvirostris and its relatives

Miocene

Where Nuculana curvirostris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

306 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Nuculana curvirostris, 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

2 references

Each of the 8 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

Media content1

Picture of Nuculana curvirostris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Nuculana curvirostris 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. de Cserna 1961