Nucula prunicola
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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 most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Nucula prunicola 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- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group2
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The named rock units Nucula prunicola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nucula prunicola and its relatives
MioceneWhere Nucula prunicola and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
188 taxa- Euspira heros2 sites
- Glycymeris parilis2 sites
- Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata2 sites
- Mercenaria ducatelli2 sites
- Stewartia anodonta2 sites
- Varicorbula elevata2 sites
- Ameiseophis robinsoni1 site
- Amphicyon longiramus1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anchitheriomys1 site
- Anchitherium1 site
- Anthracotheriidae1 site
- Apalone lima1 site
- Archaeohippus blackbergi1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Astarte cuneiformis1 site
- Astarte distans1 site
- Atrina1 site
- Aves1 site
- Barbouromeryx trigonocorneus1 site
- Bassariscinae indet.1 site
- Batrachosauroides dissimulans1 site
- Bicorbula idonea1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nucula prunicola, 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- Mollusks from the Lower Miocene Pollack Farm Site, Kenty County, Delaware: A preliminary analysis1
- Stratigraphy, invertebrate taphonomy and depositional history of the Miocene Calvert and Choptank Formations, Atlantic Coastal Plain1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Nucula prunicola 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 prunicola, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucula prunicola 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1898