Nucella lamellosa
Searched as Thais lamellosa. The Paleobiology Database treats Nucella lamellosa as the accepted name.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- frilled dogwinklePBDB
- Sits inside
- NucellaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka.
50 occurrences of Nucella lamellosa 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
50 occurrences- Miocene10%
- Pliocene28%
- Pleistocene62%
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
15 formations
- Careaga Sandstone Formation6
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation6
- Jacalitos Formation4
- Etchegoin Formation4
- Late Pleistocene terrace Formation2
- San Diego Formation2
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The named rock units Nucella lamellosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nucella lamellosa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Nucella lamellosa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
531 taxa- Callianax biplicata17 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana17 sites
- Caesia fossatus14 sites
- Callianax pedroana14 sites
- Pododesmus (Monia) macrochisma14 sites
- Tresus nuttallii14 sites
- Crassadoma gigantea13 sites
- Crepidula nummaria13 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum13 sites
- Acanthinucella spirata12 sites
- Hima cooperi12 sites
- Crepidula adunca11 sites
- Paciocinebrina interfossa11 sites
- Paciocinebrina lurida11 sites
- Amphissa versicolor10 sites
- Atrimitra idae10 sites
- Ceratostoma foliatum10 sites
- Diodora aspera10 sites
- Littorina (Littorina) scutulata10 sites
- Lottia scabra10 sites
- Macoma nasuta10 sites
- Acmaea mitra9 sites
- Californiconus californicus9 sites
- Chlorostoma funebrale9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Nucella lamellosa, 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
16 references- Late Pleistocene megafauna of Cayucos, California, and its zoogeographic significance11
- Geology and paleontology of the Santa Maria District California8
- The Etchegoin Pliocene of middle California8
- Late Pleistocene marine paleoecology and zoogeography on Central California5
- The marine Tertiary stratigraphy of the North Pacific coast of America3
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California3
- The upper Pliocene San Diego Formation and the occurrence of Carcharodon megalodon at La Joya, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico2
- Pancho Rico Formation, Salinas Valley2
- Pectinids from the Taga Group of the Joban Coalfield1
- Stratigraphy, paleontology, and geology of the Central Santa Cruz Mountains, California Coast Ranges1
- Early Pliocene marine climate and environment of the eastern Ventura Basin, Southern California1
- Interpretation of the invertebrate fauna from the Upper Pleistocene Battery Formation near Crescent City, California1
Each of the 50 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. 4 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 Nucella lamellosa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nucella lamellosa 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 itNucella through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1791)