Nucula planomarginata
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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 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 61.66 Mya.
12 occurrences of Nucula planomarginata 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
12 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
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The named rock units Nucula planomarginata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nucula planomarginata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Nucula planomarginata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
189 taxa- Cymbophora warrenana7 sites
- Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) nebrascana7 sites
- Tenuipteria fibrosa7 sites
- Protocardia subquadrata6 sites
- Anomia5 sites
- Inoceramus5 sites
- Phelopteria linguaeformis5 sites
- Acanthoscaphites4 sites
- Cucullaea nebrascensis4 sites
- Nucula cancellata4 sites
- Actinosepia canadensis3 sites
- Corbula3 sites
- Crenella elegantula3 sites
- Dentalium3 sites
- Discoscaphites3 sites
- Dosiniopsis deweyi3 sites
- Ellipsoscapha3 sites
- Glossus moreauensis3 sites
- Graphidula3 sites
- Hoploscaphites3 sites
- Hoploscaphites nicolletii3 sites
- Leptocardia borealis3 sites
- Malletia evansi3 sites
- Modiolus galpinianus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Nucula planomarginata, 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
6 references- Geology of the Southern Alberta Plains. Part II. Paleontology of the marine formations of the Montana Group4
- The Red Bird Section of the Upper Cretaceous Pierre Shale in Wyoming3
- Scaphitid ammonites of the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation in South Dakota and Wyoming2
- USGS Locality Compendium1
- Marine Upper Cretaceous and lowermost Tertiary deposits in West Greenland1
- The type Fox Hills Formation, Cretaceous (Maestrichtian), South Dakota Part 2. Systematics of the Bivalvia1
Each of the 12 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 Nucula planomarginata 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 planomarginata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucula planomarginata 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 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