Nucha naucum

No picture of Nucha naucum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Nucha naucum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NuchaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Porifera
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Heteractinida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Heteractinida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Heteractinida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Heteractinida

Time the record covers

At least 58 million years on record.

The record covers at least 508 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 511.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 2 occurrences513–510 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences510–508 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508 Mya449.5 Mya513 Mya442 Mya

2 occurrences of Nucha naucum on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

Jones Ridge Limestone — 65.11°N, 140.98°WCoonigan — 31.02°S, 142.33°E

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

Nucha naucum and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Nucha naucum and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Nucha naucum, 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

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

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No picture of Nucha naucum was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Nucha naucum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nucha naucum 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.

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What may have been alongside itNucha through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pickett and Jell 1983