Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta

Searched as Leda minuta. The Paleobiology Database treats Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta as the accepted name.

Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
minute nutclamPBDB
Sits inside
Nuculana (Nuculana)PBDB
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 least 241 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 14 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 14 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 14 occurrences252–244 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences244–235 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences235–227 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–202 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–84 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences84–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–59 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.4–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences241.464 Mya129 ka252 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta 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

14 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

6 formations

San Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WKeuper — 47.72°N, 11.98°ELomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WTimms Point Silt — 33.71°N, 118.27°W? — 51.15°S, 72.38°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°W

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The named rock units Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

455 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta, 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

11 references

Each of the 14 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 Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. (Müller 1776)