Nuculopsis elongata

No picture of Nuculopsis elongata 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 Nuculopsis elongata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NuculopsisPBDB
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 246 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences329–320 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences320–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences79–70 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences70–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences318.6 Mya72.2 Mya329 Mya61 Mya

2 occurrences of Nuculopsis elongata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

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.

Nuculopsis elongata and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Nuculopsis elongata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

72 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nuculopsis elongata, 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

2 references

Each 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. 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 Nuculopsis elongata 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 Nuculopsis elongata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nuculopsis elongata 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 itNuculopsis through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Morningstar 1922)