Nuculana (Saccella) alaeformis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaccellaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Saccella
- Life habit
- shallow infaunalPBDB, for Saccella
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Saccella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.
9 occurrences of Nuculana (Saccella) alaeformis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
9 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Nuculana (Saccella) alaeformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nuculana (Saccella) alaeformis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Nuculana (Saccella) alaeformis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
162 taxa- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii6 sites
- Brachysphingus sinuatus5 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii4 sites
- Lacunaria striata4 sites
- Meretrix stantoni4 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum4 sites
- Pholadomya (Pholadomya) nasuta4 sites
- Pitar quadratus4 sites
- Polinices hornii4 sites
- Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus4 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus4 sites
- Siphonalia lineata4 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) stantoni4 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa3 sites
- Crassatella uvasana3 sites
- Cucullaea mathewsonii3 sites
- Dentalium cooperi3 sites
- Dentalium stramineum3 sites
- Glycymerita major3 sites
- Miltha turneri3 sites
- Paphia clarki3 sites
- Priscoficus robustus3 sites
- Solen3 sites
- Acesta (Acesta) multiradiata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Nuculana (Saccella) alaeformis, 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- Fauna of the Martinez Eocene of California4
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.2
- Geology of the coast ranges immediately north of the San Francisco Bay region, California2
- Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California1
Each of the 9 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.
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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSaccella through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1869)