Nuculanella

No picture of Nuculanella 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 Nuculanella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NuculidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Nuculidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculidae

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences312–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences307 Mya254.14 Mya325 Mya250 Mya

3 occurrences of Nuculanella on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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 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

3 formations

Mojon de Hierro — 44.53°S, 70.02°WKatsura — 33.50°N, 133.30°EGraham — 33.24°N, 98.12°W

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The named rock units Nuculanella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Nuculanella and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Nuculanella and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

55 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Nuculanella, 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

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. 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

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No picture of Nuculanella 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 Nuculanella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Nuculanella 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.

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What may have been alongside itNuculidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tasch 1953)