Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis

Nuculana washingtonensis (Weaver, 1916), a relative of Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis — not Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis itself

Not Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis. This is Nuculana washingtonensis (Weaver, 1916), a relative — both are Nuculanidae.

Collector(s): Dr. Richard C. Allison, University of Alaska Fairbanks Geology Department · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

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 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Eocene — about 31 of 56 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 23 of 56 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 56 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 7 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 7 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37.71 Mya23.04 Mya48.7 Mya15.3 Mya

56 occurrences of Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

56 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

10 formations

Eugene — 44.06°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.16°N, 123.05°WEugene — 45.21°N, 123.20°WEugene — 44.04°N, 123.04°WEugene — 44.04°N, 123.06°WEugene — 44.98°N, 123.18°WEugene — 44.94°N, 123.03°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 122.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.59°N, 123.21°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.13°N, 123.37°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.69°N, 123.19°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.86°N, 123.11°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.00°N, 123.26°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 123.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.90°N, 123.15°WPittsburg — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg — 45.70°N, 123.19°WPittsburg — 45.88°N, 123.12°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.48°WBlakeley — 47.55°N, 122.34°WQuimper — 47.95°N, 122.68°WQuimper — 48.00°N, 122.83°WQuimper — 48.08°N, 123.10°WKreyenhagen — 36.55°N, 120.49°WKeasey — 46.00°N, 123.26°WKeasey — 45.88°N, 123.26°WLincoln Creek — 46.74°N, 123.03°WTukwila — 47.48°N, 122.25°W

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The named rock units Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis and its relatives

Eocene

Where Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

442 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis, 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

12 references

Each of the 56 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 content1

Picture of Nuculana washingtonensis (Weaver, 1916)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Collector(s): Dr. Richard C. Allison, University of Alaska Fairbanks Geology Department
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itSaccella through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Weaver 1916)