Nuculana excavata

No picture of Nuculana excavata 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 excavata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 181 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 56 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 5 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences248–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–234 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences234–228 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences228–221 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences59–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences247 Mya66 Mya255 Mya52 Mya

5 occurrences of Nuculana excavata on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

5 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

5 formations

Trochitenkalk — 49.28°N, 8.70°EOiching — 47.92°N, 13.00°ENarabara — 35.37°N, 135.18°EShemulong — 27.43°N, 101.49°EReiflingerkalk — 47.09°N, 17.91°E

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The named rock units Nuculana excavata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Nuculana excavata and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Nuculana excavata and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

72 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nuculana excavata, 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

Each of the 5 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 excavata 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 excavata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nuculana excavata 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 Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1837)