Nucularca pectunculoides
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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 least 800 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 451 Mya to 450.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
4 occurrences of Nucularca pectunculoides 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Nucularca pectunculoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nucularca pectunculoides and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Nucularca pectunculoides and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Hallopora3 sites
- Zygospira modesta3 sites
- Amplexopora2 sites
- Atactoporella2 sites
- Byssonychia radiata2 sites
- Ceramoporella2 sites
- Constellaria florida2 sites
- Dekayia2 sites
- Escharopora2 sites
- Flexicalymene2 sites
- Heterotrypa2 sites
- Homotrypa2 sites
- Isotelus2 sites
- Lyrodesma poststriatum2 sites
- Peronopora2 sites
- Agelacrinus cincinnatiensis1 site
- Amphilichas halli1 site
- Archinacella1 site
- Augustoceras vallandighami1 site
- Bucania1 site
- Bucanopsis1 site
- Bythocypris1 site
- Bythopora1 site
- Ceramophylla1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Nucularca pectunculoides, 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- Nucularcidae: a new family of palaeotaxodont Ordovician pelecypods (Mollusca) from North America and Australia2
- Lithostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Lexington Limestone (Ordovician) of central Kentucky1
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee1
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 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 pectunculoides 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 pectunculoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucularca pectunculoides 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. (Hall 1872)