Ennucula grayi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EnnuculaPBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 774 ka.
2 occurrences of Ennucula grayi on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene19%
- Miocene31%
- Pleistocene50%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ennucula grayi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Adelomelon ancilla1 site
- Bela paesleri1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Chorus giganteus1 site
- Cirripedia1 site
- Cyclocardia velutinus1 site
- Darina solenoides1 site
- Decapoda1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Echinoidea1 site
- Ensis macha1 site
- Epitonium (Nitidiscala) magellanicus1 site
- Euspira guamblinensis1 site
- Fusitriton magellanicus1 site
- Macoma inornata1 site
- Magellania venosa1 site
- Malletia chilensis1 site
- Mytilus1 site
- Nassarius taeniolatus1 site
- Pandora cistula1 site
- Retrotapes exalbida1 site
- Sassia leucostomoides1 site
- Scaphander interruptus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ennucula grayi, 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- Early Pleistocene mollusks of the Tubul Formation, south-central Chile1
- Oligocene–Miocene bivalve Mollusca and other macrofossils from Sites 270 and 272 (Ross Sea), DSDP, Leg 281
Each of the 2 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. 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 Ennucula grayi
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ennucula grayi 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1846)