Nuculoidea corbuliformis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NuculoideaPBDB
- 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 230 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 399.5 Mya to 152.21 Mya.
143 occurrences of Nuculoidea corbuliformis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
143 occurrences- Devonian99%
- Late Jurassicunder 1%
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
10 formations
- Moscow Formation · Hamilton Group65
- Geneseo Formation · Genesee Group51
- Tully Formation · Tully Group9
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group5
- Plum Brook Shale Formation3
- Millport equivalent Formation1
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The named rock units Nuculoidea corbuliformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nuculoidea corbuliformis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Nuculoidea corbuliformis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
300 taxa- Mucrospirifer mucronatus50 sites
- Devonochonetes scitulus39 sites
- Tropidoleptus carinatus37 sites
- Palaeoneilo constricta35 sites
- Crinoidea34 sites
- Tylothyris mesacostalis27 sites
- Orthospirifer mesastrialis26 sites
- Actinopteria boydi25 sites
- Cupularostrum eximia24 sites
- Nuculites24 sites
- Paracyclas22 sites
- Leptodesma (Leiopteria)20 sites
- Cypricardella18 sites
- Katabuporhynchus mesacostalis18 sites
- Nuculites oblongatus18 sites
- Cyrtina hamiltonensis17 sites
- Leptodesma spinigerum16 sites
- Allanella tullius15 sites
- Ambocoelia umbonata15 sites
- Spirifer15 sites
- Tentaculites15 sites
- Klocinetes lepidus14 sites
- Modiomorpha14 sites
- Orthoceras14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Nuculoidea corbuliformis, 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
16 references- The Dynamics of Rapid, Asynchronous Biotic Turnover in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin of New York46
- Work with Thayer collections, Yale Peabody Accession 7112, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology41
- The classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York13
- Field notes and samples, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology9
- Comparative Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Middle Devonian Dark Gray and Black Shale Facies from Western New York7
- Field notes and samples, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology6
- Classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York, Part 25
- Testing for faunal stability across a regional biotic transition: quantifying stasis and variation among recurring coral-rich biofacies in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin3
- Late Famennian bivalve, gastropod and bellerophontid molluscs from the Refrath 1 Borehole (Bergisch Gladbach-Paffrath Syncline; Ardennes-Rhenish Massif, Germany)3
- A test of a new technique illustrating faunal dominance trends: Application to the “Trilobite Beds” interval of the Middle Devonian Wanakah Shale in western New York3
- Upper Devonian pelecypods of the New York Chemung stage2
- Lower and Middle Devonian marine deposits of the Soviet arctic and the correlation with arctic Canada1
Each of the 143 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. 4 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
Media content1

Picture of Nuculoidea corbuliformis
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No 3D scan of Nuculoidea corbuliformis 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 itNuculoidea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall and Whitfield 1869)