Nuculavus

Nuculavus

via GBIF · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
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 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 44 of 104 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 60 of 104 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 104 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences334–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 3 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 4 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 3 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences317–314 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences314–311 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences311–308 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 9 occurrences302–299 Mya — about 19 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 4 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 6 occurrences291–288 Mya — about 4 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 3 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 7 occurrences282–279 Mya — about 11 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 11 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 8 occurrences273–270 Mya — about 2 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 1 occurrence265–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 3 occurrences323.4 Mya254.14 Mya337 Mya250 Mya

104 occurrences of Nuculavus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

104 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

27 formations

Loray — 39.01°N, 114.88°WLoray — 39.20°N, 114.98°WLoray — 39.65°N, 115.32°WLoray — 39.48°N, 115.12°WLoray — 40.02°N, 115.37°WGraham — 33.24°N, 98.12°WRustler — 31.63°N, 104.22°WRustler — 31.65°N, 104.21°WLaborcita — 33.08°N, 105.99°WLaborcita — 32.99°N, 105.92°WPequop — 40.23°N, 115.16°WPequop — 39.21°N, 114.98°WKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 35.72°N, 111.47°WSupai — 33.99°N, 110.35°WSupai — 33.83°N, 109.86°WSupai — 33.93°N, 110.19°WSupai — 33.94°N, 110.11°WImo — 35.78°N, 92.55°WImo — 35.81°N, 92.81°WImo — 35.83°N, 92.57°WSaiwan — 20.87°N, 57.61°EHolder — 33.40°N, 105.87°WMadera Limestone — 35.75°N, 107.12°WArcturus — 39.38°N, 113.71°WArcturus — 39.15°N, 114.90°WBluestone — 37.90°N, 81.50°WHinton — 37.90°N, 81.50°WFossil Cliff — 28.79°S, 115.50°EBlaine — 34.35°N, 99.75°WBlaine — 34.19°N, 99.85°WBaird — 40.90°N, 122.27°WBragdon and Baird — 40.88°N, 121.66°WBird Spring — 36.60°N, 114.79°WRío del Peñón — 28.60°S, 68.74°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.17°WDog Creek — 33.37°N, 100.35°WBoggy — 34.43°N, 96.96°WHolmwood — 28.90°S, 115.55°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Nuculavus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nuculavus and its relatives

Permian

Where Nuculavus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

729 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 99 sites for Nuculavus, 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

25 references

Each of the 104 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. 13 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Nuculavus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nuculavus 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 itNuculidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tschernyschev 1943