Nucula vicksburgensis
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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 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
41 occurrences of Nucula vicksburgensis 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
41 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
5 formations
- Byram Formation · Vicksburg Group20
- Red Bluff Formation · Vicksburg Group11
- Mint Spring Formation7
- Forest Hill Formation2
- Byram Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Nucula vicksburgensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nucula vicksburgensis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Nucula vicksburgensis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
357 taxa- Corbula engonata21 sites
- Pitar20 sites
- Verticordia20 sites
- Eburneopecten (Eburneopecten) subminutus19 sites
- Dentalium15 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) carsonensis15 sites
- Astarte triangulata14 sites
- Corbula14 sites
- Pteria argentea14 sites
- Cadulus13 sites
- Ervilia13 sites
- Ringicula mississippiensis13 sites
- Yoldia clydoniona13 sites
- Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis12 sites
- Mitra12 sites
- Agnocardia glebosum11 sites
- Callista11 sites
- Lirophora (Lirophora) victoria11 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) eocenense11 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) invidiosa11 sites
- Spheniopsis11 sites
- Varicorbula laqueata11 sites
- Acteon10 sites
- Kelliella10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Nucula vicksburgensis, 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
4 references- Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi17
- Testing for patterns of faunal persistence in the early Oligocene Byram Formation of Mississippi16
- Paleoecological patterns in molluscan extinctions and recoveries: comparison of the Cretaceous-Paleogene and Eocene-Oligocene extinctions in North America7
- Observations on the Eocene formations, and descriptions of one hundred and five new fossils from that period, from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi; with an appendix1
Each of the 41 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 content0
No picture of Nucula vicksburgensis 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 vicksburgensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nucula vicksburgensis 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 OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1848