Nuculopsis imperta
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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 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 254.14 Mya.
5 occurrences of Nuculopsis imperta 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
5 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Flat Top Formation3
- Letham Formation · Productus Creek Group2
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The named rock units Nuculopsis imperta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nuculopsis imperta and its relatives
PermianWhere Nuculopsis imperta and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Calcicanicularia antecostata3 sites
- Etheripecten dawsonensis3 sites
- Mesopunctia macropustulosus3 sites
- Myonia (Myomedia) carinata3 sites
- Parallelodon theodorensis3 sites
- Plekonella acuta3 sites
- Saetosina multispinosa3 sites
- Vacunella curvata3 sites
- Vacunella dawsonensis3 sites
- Aperispirifer lethamensis2 sites
- Aperispirifer wairakiensis2 sites
- Atomodesma variabile2 sites
- Cyrtella nobilis2 sites
- Cyrtorostra laticostata2 sites
- Elimata prima2 sites
- Etheripecten latus2 sites
- Fletcherithyris braxtonensis2 sites
- Guizhoupecten filae2 sites
- Ingelarella mantuanensis2 sites
- Kaibabella (Flattopia) axinia2 sites
- Mourlonopsis strzeleckiana2 sites
- Paucispinauria concava2 sites
- Peruvispira imbricata2 sites
- Platyteichum coniforme2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Nuculopsis imperta, 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- Late Palaeozoic Mollusca and correlations from the south-east Bowen Basin, east Australia3
- Palaeotaxodont bivalves from the Permian of New Zealand2
Each of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Nuculopsis imperta 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 imperta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nuculopsis imperta 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 itNuculopsis through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waterhouse 1964