Nucularca gorensis
No picture of Nucularca gorensis 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 Nucularca gorensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NucularcaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Nucularcidae
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Nucularcidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Nucularcidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.6 Mya and 445.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Nucularca gorensis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Nucularca gorensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nucularca gorensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Nucularca gorensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Ambonychia1 site
- Calapoecia huronensis1 site
- Favistina1 site
- Foerstephyllum1 site
- Hebertella occidentalis1 site
- Hiscobeccus capax1 site
- Kinnella laurentiana1 site
- Ortonella1 site
- Platystrophia1 site
- Zygospira1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nucularca gorensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Nucularca gorensis 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 Nucularca gorensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucularca gorensis 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 itNucularca through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Foerste 1924)