Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) waltoni

Nuculopsis waltoni Morris & Lycett, 1853, a relative of Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) waltoni — not Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) waltoni itself

Not Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) waltoni. This is Nuculopsis waltoni Morris & Lycett, 1853, a relative — both are Nuculidae.

Fischer, Jean-Claude · 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
PalaeonuculaPBDB
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 most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 174.7 Mya and 161.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 6 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences170–170 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175.2 Mya161 Mya

6 occurrences of Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) waltoni on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

6 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

4 formations

Calcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.88°N, 4.04°ECalcaires pseudo-oolithiques superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.21°ECalcaires marno-crayeux superieurs — 49.83°N, 4.20°ECalcaires marneux inferieurs — 49.87°N, 4.06°EStonesfield Slate — 51.80°N, 1.88°W

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The named rock units Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) waltoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) waltoni and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) waltoni and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

88 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Nuculopsis (Palaeonucula) waltoni, 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

2 references

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Nuculopsis waltoni Morris & Lycett, 1853

Source
GBIF
Credit
Fischer, Jean-Claude
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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. Morris and Lycett 1853