Nuculavus levatiformis

No picture of Nuculavus levatiformis 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 Nuculavus levatiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NuculavusPBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculidae

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 30 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 26 of 30 occurrencesPermian316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–299 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 2 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 3 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 3 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 3 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 3 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 3 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307 Mya266.9 Mya316 Mya263 Mya

30 occurrences of Nuculavus levatiformis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

30 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

13 formations

Loray — 39.21°N, 114.97°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.31°WLoray — 39.48°N, 115.13°WLoray — 40.02°N, 115.37°WKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 35.72°N, 111.47°WSupai — 33.99°N, 110.35°WSupai — 33.83°N, 109.86°WSupai — 33.93°N, 110.19°WSupai — 33.94°N, 110.11°WBlaine — 34.35°N, 99.75°WBlaine — 34.19°N, 99.85°WBird Spring — 36.60°N, 114.79°WRío del Peñón — 28.60°S, 68.74°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.17°WDog Creek — 33.37°N, 100.35°WArcturus — 39.15°N, 114.90°WRed Tanks — 35.75°N, 107.12°WMadera Limestone — 35.75°N, 107.12°WLaborcita — 32.99°N, 105.92°WYeso — 34.18°N, 106.76°W

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The named rock units Nuculavus levatiformis 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.

Nuculavus levatiformis and its relatives

Permian

Where Nuculavus levatiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

292 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Nuculavus levatiformis, 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

14 references

Each of the 30 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. 2 further references are not listed. 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

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No picture of Nuculavus levatiformis 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 Nuculavus levatiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nuculavus levatiformis 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 itNuculavus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Walcott 1884)