Nucula pulchella
No picture of Nucula pulchella 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 pulchella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 29 million years on record.
The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 306 Mya to 266.9 Mya.
3 occurrences of Nucula pulchella on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Carboniferous33%
- Permian67%
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
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The named rock units Nucula pulchella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nucula pulchella and its relatives
PermianWhere Nucula pulchella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Polidevcia bellistriata3 sites
- Crassidonta stuckenbergi2 sites
- Deltodus mercurei2 sites
- Janassa unguicula2 sites
- Permophorus2 sites
- Retispira textiliformis2 sites
- ? Posidonomya pertennuis1 site
- ? Posidonomya recurva1 site
- Acanthopecten carboniferous1 site
- Acharax parallela1 site
- Acondylacanthus browni1 site
- Archaeocidaris1 site
- Avicula sulcata1 site
- Aviculopecten germanus1 site
- Aviculopecten mccoyi1 site
- Aviculopecten occidentalis1 site
- Beecheria bovidens1 site
- Bellerophon marconanus1 site
- Chaenomya laevenworthensis1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Chonetes vernenilanus1 site
- Cochliodontidae1 site
- Composita argentea1 site
- Crustacea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nucula pulchella, 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 referencesEach 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. 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 pulchella 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 pulchella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucula pulchella 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 PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beede and Rogers 1899