Nuculana (Thestyleda)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NuculanaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Time the record covers
At least 224 million years on record.
The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 11.7 ka.
10 occurrences of Nuculana (Thestyleda) on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
10 occurrences- Late Triassic60%
- Miocene10%
- Pliocene10%
- Pleistocene20%
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
- Luning Formation6
- Togopi Formation2
- Pakhachinskaya Formation1
- Swan Cay Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
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The named rock units Nuculana (Thestyleda) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nuculana (Thestyleda) and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Nuculana (Thestyleda) and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Ammonoidea5 sites
- Bivalvia5 sites
- Arcavicula4 sites
- Gastropoda3 sites
- Klamathites3 sites
- Septocardia3 sites
- Tropites3 sites
- Halobia2 sites
- Michelinoceras2 sites
- Myophoria2 sites
- Ainicardita1 site
- Ciliatocardium asagaiense1 site
- Clinocardium (Keenocardium)1 site
- Conchocele1 site
- Costatoria1 site
- Cyclocardia1 site
- Decapod sp.1 site
- Diplodonta1 site
- Germanonautilus1 site
- Juvavites1 site
- Klamathites schucherti1 site
- Laevicardium1 site
- Lunulicardita1 site
- Macoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Nuculana (Thestyleda), 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- Community structure, paleoecology, and depositional environments within the Upper Triassic Luning Formation of Nevada6
- Preliminary notes on fossil records of East Malaysia and Brunei2
- Neogene and Paleogene Molluscan (Bivalvia) Cenozones of the Russian Northeast.1
- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama1
Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Nuculana (Thestyleda) was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Nuculana (Thestyleda), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nuculana (Thestyleda) 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 itNuculana through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Iredale 1929)