Nuculopsis

Searched as Nuculopsis gibbosa. The Paleobiology Database treats Nuculopsis as the accepted name.

Nuculopsis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NuculidaePBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 318.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 307.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 26 of 26 occurrencesCarboniferous347–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences341–339 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences337–335 Mya — about 2 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 4 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 4 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 4 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 2 occurrences330–328 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 3 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 3 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 2 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 1 occurrence319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330.3 Mya318.7 Mya347.5 Mya306.6 Mya

26 occurrences of Nuculopsis 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

26 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

7 formations

Second Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WStainmore — 54.59°N, 3.57°WStainmore — 54.58°N, 3.53°WStainmore — 54.99°N, 1.62°WStainmore — 55.00°N, 1.75°WColsterdale Marine Beds — 54.07°N, 1.82°WMiddle Limestone Va Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WAlston — 54.80°N, 2.43°WCarraun Shale — 54.42°N, 7.86°WDergvone Shale — 54.42°N, 7.86°W

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The named rock units Nuculopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Nuculopsis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Nuculopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

3,308 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 516 sites for Nuculopsis, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

5 references

Each of the 26 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 content1

Picture of Nuculopsis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1912)