Nuculana spheniopsis
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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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Nuculana spheniopsis 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Nuculana spheniopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nuculana spheniopsis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Nuculana spheniopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
69 taxa- Abra nitens2 sites
- Alveinus minutus2 sites
- Bathytormus flexurus2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Caestocorbula wailesiana2 sites
- Callista annexa2 sites
- Calorhadia (Litorhadia) mater2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Corbula densata2 sites
- Crassinella pygmaea2 sites
- Eburneopecten scintillatus2 sites
- Endopachys maclurii2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Hipponix2 sites
- Kapalmerella alveata2 sites
- Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta2 sites
- Pteria limula2 sites
- Spisula jacksonensis2 sites
- Tellinidae2 sites
- Turritella perdita2 sites
- Acteon annectens1 site
- Agaronia media1 site
- Amauropsis fetteri1 site
- Architectonica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nuculana spheniopsis, 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
3 references- Magnetostratigraphy of Paleogene Deposits in Kamchatka1
- Fossil assemblages of a marine transgressive sand, Moody''s Branch Formation (Upper Eocene), Louisiana and Mississippi1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
Each of the 3 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 content0
No picture of Nuculana spheniopsis 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 spheniopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nuculana spheniopsis 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.