Nucula cancellata

Nucula cancellata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NuculaPBDB
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 49 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 9 of 11 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesMiocene85–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 3 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72.2 Mya23.04 Mya85 Mya15 Mya

11 occurrences of Nucula cancellata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

11 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

Fox Hills — 45.16°N, 101.41°WFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WGaj — 23.33°N, 68.85°EGaj — 23.35°N, 68.82°EPierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WEastend — 49.62°N, 110.29°WBearpaw — 49.36°N, 110.42°WBearpaw — 48.03°N, 106.32°W

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The named rock units Nucula cancellata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nucula cancellata and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Nucula cancellata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Nucula cancellata, 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

7 references

Each of the 11 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 Nucula cancellata

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Nucula cancellata 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 itNucula through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek and Hayden 1857