Nutricola tantilla
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- purple dwarf-venusPBDB
- Sits inside
- NutricolaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.
83 occurrences of Nutricola tantilla on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
83 occurrences- Miocene4%
- Pliocene9%
- Pleistocene87%
- Holoceneunder 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
12 formations
- Careaga Sandstone Formation20
- Unnamed Formation12
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation4
- Pico Formation4
- Foxen Mudstone Formation3
- Pancho Rico Formation3
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The named rock units Nutricola tantilla has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nutricola tantilla and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Nutricola tantilla and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,128 taxa- Callianax biplicata42 sites
- Epilucina californica32 sites
- Californiconus californicus30 sites
- Crepidula adunca30 sites
- Cumingia californica30 sites
- Glans carpenteri30 sites
- Diodora aspera29 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana29 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus29 sites
- Mitrella gausapata28 sites
- Chlorostoma funebrale27 sites
- Alia carinata26 sites
- Amphissa versicolor26 sites
- Cryptomya californica26 sites
- Homalopoma (Homalopoma) luridum26 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa26 sites
- Lottia scabra25 sites
- Fissurella volcano24 sites
- Littorina (Littorina) scutulata24 sites
- Tresus nuttallii24 sites
- Turritella cooperi24 sites
- Crepidula onyx23 sites
- Leukoma staminea23 sites
- Antisabia panamensis22 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 70 sites for Nutricola tantilla, and this reads all 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
27 references- Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California19
- Geology of San Nicolas Island, California12
- On the reconciliation of biostratigraphy and strontium isotope stratigraphy of three southern Californian Plio-Pleistocene formations8
- Late Pleistocene molluscan faunas from upper terraces of the Palos Verdes Hills, California6
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California5
- Late Pleistocene faunas from the northwestern coast of Baja California, Mexico4
- Modern Death Assemblages and Pleistocene Fossil Assemblages in Open Coast High Energy Environments, San Nicolas Island, California3
- Late Pleistocene marine paleoecology and zoogeography on Central California3
- Pancho Rico Formation, Salinas Valley3
- A Neogene section northeastern San Clemente Island, California2
- Late Pleistocene megafauna of Cayucos, California, and its zoogeographic significance2
- A Late Pliocene macrofossil fauna of Newport Beach, Orange County, California1
Each of the 83 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. 15 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 Nutricola tantilla
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No 3D scan of Nutricola tantilla 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 itNutricola through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1853)