Nuttallia

Nuttallia is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Psammobiidae.

Nuttallia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PsammobiidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Psammobiidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Psammobiidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Psammobiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 36 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 36 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 36 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 36 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 12 of 36 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 36 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 36 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–31 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 9 occurrences56 Mya129 ka67 Mya0 Mya

36 occurrences of Nuttallia on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

36 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

26 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WQuimper — 48.00°N, 122.83°WQuimper — 48.05°N, 122.74°WEtolonskaya — 58.42°N, 159.00°EVaqueros — 33.64°N, 117.59°WVaqueros — 34.38°N, 118.84°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.80°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WYsidro — 28.92°N, 113.95°WIl'inskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°EKakertskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°ESnatol'skaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°ETkapravayamskaya — 60.87°N, 163.67°EKhulgunskaya — 57.78°N, 158.58°EBorskaya — 50.41°N, 143.74°ENutovskaya — 52.57°N, 143.23°EPomyrskaya — 54.16°N, 142.56°EGastellovskaya — 49.10°N, 142.96°ENevel'skaya — 50.82°N, 142.13°EIsidro — 26.97°N, 113.18°WAkasawa Silt — 34.67°N, 137.25°ESan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WJacalitos — 36.04°N, 120.39°WEtchegoin — 36.23°N, 120.31°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°W

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The named rock units Nuttallia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nuttallia and its relatives

Miocene

Where Nuttallia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,008 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Nuttallia, 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

21 references

Each of the 36 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. 9 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 content2

Picture of Nuttallia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPsammobiidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1900)