Nuculana
Searched as Nuculana iphigenia zulensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Nuculana as the accepted name.
Nuculana is a genus of bivalves in the family Nuculanidae. It includes the following species:
Wood (scan by Tom Meijer, 26-6-2007) · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
- NuculanidaePBDB
- 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 most 2.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 2.58 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Nuculana on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
1 occurrences- Pliocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Nuculana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Nuculana and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Nuculana and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
1,804 taxa- Syncyclonema76 sites
- Anomia argentaria71 sites
- Cymbophora67 sites
- Crassatella vadosa66 sites
- Striarca65 sites
- Veniella conradi64 sites
- Crenella serica62 sites
- Cyprimeria62 sites
- Corbula60 sites
- Nucula59 sites
- Linearis58 sites
- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata57 sites
- Camptonectes bubonis56 sites
- Granocardium55 sites
- Nucula percrassa49 sites
- Vertebrata48 sites
- Turritella46 sites
- Bryozoa45 sites
- Cadulus45 sites
- Nemodon eufaulensis45 sites
- Pseudolimea reticulata45 sites
- Cyclorisma44 sites
- Tenea44 sites
- Idonearca capax43 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 1,377 sites for Nuculana, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1
Picture of Nuculana
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Wood (scan by Tom Meijer, 26-6-2007)
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Nuculana 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Nuculana”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itNuculanidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Link 1807