Nucella lima

Nucella lima, commonly known as the File Dog Winkle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Nucella lima

Minette Layne from Seattle, Washington · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
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 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–2.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.9–2.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11.63 Mya3.6 Mya14.3 Mya2.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Nucella lima on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

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

2 formations

San Margarita — 37.05°N, 122.07°WMerced — 37.39°N, 122.17°W

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The named rock units Nucella lima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Nucella lima and its relatives

Miocene

Where Nucella lima and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

32 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Nucella lima, 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

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 Nucella lima

Credit
Minette Layne from Seattle, Washington
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nucella lima 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.

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 itNucella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Martyn 1784)