Nuculana (Praesaccella)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NuculanaPBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae

Time the record covers

At least 73 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 149 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 50 of 149 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 91 of 149 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 7 of 149 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 149 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous203–200 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences200–197 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences195–192 Mya — about 2 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 6 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 6 occurrences186–184 Mya — about 12 occurrences184–181 Mya — about 16 occurrences181–178 Mya — about 4 occurrences178–175 Mya — about 3 occurrences175–172 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 27 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 64 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 2 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 2 occurrences156–153 Mya — about 1 occurrence153–150 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences199.5 Mya125.77 Mya203 Mya120 Mya

149 occurrences of Nuculana (Praesaccella) on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

149 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

13 formations

Chari — 23.50°N, 70.50°EWhitby Mudstone — 54.40°N, 0.50°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.45°N, 0.57°WPiedra Pintada — 40.12°S, 70.27°WPiedra Pintada — 40.05°S, 70.35°WHabo beds — 23.20°N, 69.80°EAlum Shale — 54.49°N, 0.60°WTataouine — 33.00°N, 10.47°EEl Cholo — 32.28°S, 70.03°WKalchreuth — 49.55°N, 11.13°EQihulin — 45.83°N, 132.33°EWhiteaves — 53.42°N, 132.27°WGadhada — 23.50°N, 70.50°EWashtawa — 23.50°N, 70.50°EDogger — 54.42°N, 0.93°W

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The named rock units Nuculana (Praesaccella) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nuculana (Praesaccella) and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Nuculana (Praesaccella) and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

318 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Nuculana (Praesaccella), 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

18 references

Each of the 149 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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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Picture of Nuculana (Praesaccella)

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GBIF
Credit
harrier
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNuculana through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cox 1940