Dacromya nagaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DacromyaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 241.464 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Dacromya nagaensis on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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
1 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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.
Dacromya nagaensis and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Dacromya nagaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Beneckeia levantina1 site
- Buccinites gregarius1 site
- Coenothyris vulgaris1 site
- Elegantinia elegans1 site
- Entolium discites1 site
- Hoernesia hesbanensis1 site
- Leda elliptica1 site
- Leptochondria albertii1 site
- Modiola raibliana1 site
- Myophoria coxi1 site
- Myophoria germanica1 site
- Nautilida1 site
- Neoschizodus cardissoides1 site
- Neoschizodus laevigatus1 site
- Nucula subaequilatera1 site
- Placunopsis fissistriata1 site
- Pteria cassiana1 site
- Schafhaeutlia1 site
- Tapes subundata1 site
- Terquemia difformis1 site
- Tibetothyris julica1 site
- Umbrostrea spondyloides1 site
- Unionites muensteri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dacromya nagaensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Dacromya nagaensis 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 Dacromya nagaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dacromya nagaensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDacromya through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Awad 1945