Nuculana grasslei
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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 6.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
3 occurrences of Nuculana grasslei 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
3 occurrencesThese 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Nuculana grasslei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Nuculana grasslei and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Nuculana grasslei and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Acteon2 sites
- Cylichna2 sites
- Acharax1 site
- Asteroidea1 site
- Aturia angustata1 site
- Benthomangelia1 site
- Callianassa knapptonensis1 site
- Callianassa porterensis1 site
- Calyptogena1 site
- Cancellaria1 site
- Catillopecten1 site
- Conchocele bisecta1 site
- Cytheropteron cf. demenocali1 site
- Delectopecten1 site
- Deltocyathus insperatus1 site
- Diaphus1 site
- Ennucula1 site
- Fulgoraria (Musashia)1 site
- Granula1 site
- Krithidae1 site
- Ledella1 site
- Liracassis1 site
- Loxoconcha1 site
- Lucinoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Nuculana grasslei, 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
3 references- New records and species of molluscs from Tertiary cold-seep carbonates in Washington State, USA1
- The Late Eocene ‘Whiskey Creek’ methane-seep deposit (western Washington State)1
- A comprehensive approach to the study of methane-seep deposits from the Lincoln Creek Formation, western Washington State, USA1
Each of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Nuculana grasslei 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 Nuculana grasslei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Nuculana grasslei was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNuculana through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Allen 1993