Nucula (Acila) nelsoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcilaPBDB
- 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 most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Nucula (Acila) nelsoni on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
3 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
- Pysht Formation · Twin River Group2
- Blakeley Formation1
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The named rock units Nucula (Acila) nelsoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nucula (Acila) nelsoni and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Nucula (Acila) nelsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
5 taxa- Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis2 sites
- Liracassis rex1 site
- Nucula hannibali1 site
- Portlandia (Portlandella) reagani1 site
- Turritella diversilineata blakeleyensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nucula (Acila) nelsoni, 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- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington2
- Pelecypoda from the Marine Oligocene of Western North America1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Nucula (Acila) nelsoni 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 Nucula (Acila) nelsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucula (Acila) nelsoni 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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What may have been alongside itAcila through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clark 1925)