Nuculopsis beyrichi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NuculopsisPBDB
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 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 13 of 14 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences322–320 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 3 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 4 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 4 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 2 occurrences318.6 Mya254.14 Mya325 Mya250 Mya

14 occurrences of Nuculopsis beyrichi 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

14 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

9 formations

Naujoji Akmené — 54.37°N, 24.90°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.67°N, 21.75°ENaujoji Akmené — 55.98°N, 22.25°EBellerophon — 46.56°N, 11.73°EBellerophon — 45.70°N, 11.22°ENaujoji Akmené — 54.67°N, 22.00°EDzhuptagin — 60.25°N, 139.07°ELoping — 27.40°N, 114.60°ELongtan — 26.40°N, 112.85°EZechstein — 50.72°N, 11.76°EPottsville — 38.90°N, 82.72°WBellerophon — 43.71°N, 18.75°E

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The named rock units Nuculopsis beyrichi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nuculopsis beyrichi and its relatives

Permian

Where Nuculopsis beyrichi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

138 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Nuculopsis beyrichi, 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 14 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 content0

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

No 3D scan of Nuculopsis beyrichi was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itNuculopsis through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Schauroth 1854)