Nuculopsis

Nuculopsis

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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 391 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 774 ka.

Devonian — about 18 of 672 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 199 of 672 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 184 of 672 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 3 of 672 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 672 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 672 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 672 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 672 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 672 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 16 of 672 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 85 of 672 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 55 of 672 occurrencesEocene — about 32 of 672 occurrencesOligocene — about 19 of 672 occurrencesMiocene — about 27 of 672 occurrencesPliocene — about 27 of 672 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 672 occurrences419–405 Mya — about 1 occurrence405–391 Mya — about 5 occurrences391–377 Mya — about 11 occurrences377–363 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences363–349 Mya — about 10 occurrences349–335 Mya — about 19 occurrences335–321 Mya — about 51 occurrences321–307 Mya — about 54 occurrences307–293 Mya — about 69 occurrences293–279 Mya — about 23 occurrences279–265 Mya — about 50 occurrences265–251 Mya — about 108 occurrences251–237 Mya — about 2 occurrences154–140 Mya — about 3 occurrences140–126 Mya — about 2 occurrences126–112 Mya — about 9 occurrences112–98 Mya — about 6 occurrences98–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–70 Mya — about 39 occurrences70–56 Mya — about 97 occurrences56–42 Mya — about 19 occurrences42–28 Mya — about 22 occurrences28–14 Mya — about 21 occurrences14–0 Mya — about 46 occurrences393.47 Mya1.8 Mya419 Mya0 Mya

672 occurrences of Nuculopsis 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

672 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

220 formations

Phosphoria — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPhosphoria — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPhosphoria — 47.06°N, 109.43°WPhosphoria — 44.00°N, 114.00°WPhosphoria — 42.32°N, 111.24°WPhosphoria — 45.03°N, 112.92°WPhosphoria — 42.09°N, 110.93°WPhosphoria — 42.35°N, 110.44°WPhosphoria — 43.35°N, 109.40°WPhosphoria — 42.53°N, 111.24°WPhosphoria — 44.58°N, 112.79°WPhosphoria — 42.12°N, 111.26°WPhosphoria — 42.78°N, 111.31°WPhosphoria — 45.03°N, 112.68°WPhosphoria — 42.95°N, 109.00°WPhosphoria — 42.69°N, 111.53°WPhosphoria — 42.01°N, 110.59°WPhosphoria — 42.26°N, 111.01°WPhosphoria — 43.19°N, 109.16°WWewoka — 35.04°N, 96.36°WGraham — 33.11°N, 98.59°WGraham — 32.96°N, 98.76°WGraham — 31.50°N, 99.37°WGraham — 31.44°N, 99.34°WGraham — 33.00°N, 98.67°WGraham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.27°N, 98.11°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.22°N, 98.19°WGraham — 33.14°N, 99.18°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.98°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.85°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.70°WLa Meseta — 64.22°S, 56.64°WSobral — 64.25°S, 56.75°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WPark City — 42.97°N, 106.78°WPark City — 39.60°N, 110.82°WPark City — 47.06°N, 109.43°WPark City — 44.00°N, 114.00°WPark City — 42.57°N, 108.41°WPark City — 42.40°N, 113.08°WPark City — 42.67°N, 108.76°WPark City — 42.75°N, 108.80°WPark City — 43.19°N, 109.16°WWeatherall — 73.50°N, 112.00°WSecond Abden Shale — 56.07°N, 3.17°WDouling — 27.69°N, 113.22°EDouling — 26.55°N, 112.50°EDouling — 27.62°N, 111.65°EDouling — 26.23°N, 112.94°EDouling — 27.08°N, 111.32°EDouling — 25.80°N, 113.00°EDouling — 27.88°N, 112.61°EDouling — 27.75°N, 111.77°EDouling — 23.23°N, 113.29°ELongtan — 27.70°N, 113.14°ELongtan — 27.77°N, 111.96°ELongtan — 26.14°N, 105.28°ELongtan — 26.40°N, 112.85°ELekvorkuta — 67.05°N, 59.95°ELekvorkuta — 66.04°N, 60.22°ELekvorkuta — 66.01°N, 57.54°ELekvorkuta — 67.68°N, 64.18°ELekvorkuta — 65.75°N, 59.50°ESevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WStainmore — 54.59°N, 3.57°WStainmore — 54.58°N, 3.53°WStainmore — 54.99°N, 1.62°WStainmore — 55.00°N, 1.75°WGlenshaw — 40.95°N, 78.99°WGlenshaw — 39.98°N, 81.73°WGlenshaw — 40.37°N, 80.63°WGlenshaw — 40.16°N, 78.59°WGlenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.25°S, 56.75°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.13°N, 123.37°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.00°N, 123.26°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.46°N, 123.12°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 123.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.90°N, 123.15°WMangarewa — 45.80°S, 167.96°EBerada — 51.10°N, 5.80°EShaiwa — 25.10°N, 106.15°EShaiwa — 25.61°N, 106.15°ECherokee Shale — 37.35°N, 94.99°WCherokee Shale — 37.36°N, 94.82°WCherokee Shale — 37.14°N, 95.10°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WDiamond Peak — 39.54°N, 115.83°WDiamond Peak — 39.57°N, 115.81°W

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The named rock units Nuculopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 196 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nuculopsis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Nuculopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

3,308 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 516 sites for Nuculopsis, 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

189 references

Each of the 672 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. 177 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 Nuculopsis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Girty 1912)