Nuculana pernula

Nuculana pernula, or Müller's nut clam, is a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Nuculanidae. It can be found along the Atlantic coast of North America, ranging from Massachusetts to Greenland.

Nuculana pernula

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
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 44 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 44 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 17 of 44 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 38 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

44 occurrences of Nuculana pernula on record. 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

44 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

11 formations

Presumpscot — 43.64°N, 70.26°WPresumpscot — 43.63°N, 70.05°WPresumpscot — 43.50°N, 70.44°WPresumpscot — 43.89°N, 70.28°WSaxicava Clay — 49.58°N, 57.93°WEtolonskaya — 58.42°N, 159.00°EKakertskaya — 62.50°N, 165.00°ELimimtevayamskaya — 58.97°N, 163.92°EUst'-Limimtevayamskaya — 58.97°N, 163.92°EUranayskaya — 49.75°N, 142.83°EChamplain Clay — 45.75°N, 62.72°WHolderness — 54.10°N, 0.21°WTentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°W

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The named rock units Nuculana pernula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

310 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Nuculana pernula, 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

10 references

Each of the 44 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 content2

Picture of Nuculana pernula

Credit
Wood (scan by Tom Meijer, 26-6-2007)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Nuculana pernula · NHMUK:ZOO:20180321

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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 timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Müller 1779)