Nutricola

Nutricola

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CallocardiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 5.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 3 of 120 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 120 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 101 of 120 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 120 occurrences7.5–7.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.2–7.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.7–6.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.9–5.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.7–5.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.4–5.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.6–4.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.4–4.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–3.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.6–3.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.8–2.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.6–2.3 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.1–1.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.5–1.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.3–1.0 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.0–775 ka Mya — about 3 occurrences775 ka–516 ka Mya — about 13 occurrences516 ka–258 ka Mya — about 13 occurrences258 ka–0 Mya — about 30 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka7.7 Mya0 Mya

120 occurrences of Nutricola on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

120 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

22 formations

Careaga Sandstone — 34.88°N, 120.51°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.82°N, 120.45°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.55°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.17°WFoxen Mudstone — 34.89°N, 120.55°WPancho Rico — 36.03°N, 120.86°WPancho Rico — 35.99°N, 120.79°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WAnchor — 34.04°N, 118.40°WSan Pedro — 33.80°N, 118.16°WHookton — 40.98°N, 124.11°WSanta Barbara — 34.40°N, 119.69°WLate Pleistocene terrace — 43.12°N, 124.41°WMerced — 43.12°N, 124.43°WElk River — 42.74°N, 124.49°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.33°WJacalitos — 35.97°N, 120.18°WSan Diego — 32.54°N, 117.11°WSaugus — 34.33°N, 118.49°WNiguel — 33.64°N, 117.89°W

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The named rock units Nutricola has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nutricola and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Nutricola and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,117 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Nutricola, and this reads all 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

40 references

Each of the 120 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. 28 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 content2

Picture of Nutricola

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CT scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Nutricola ovalis · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:190828

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bernard 1982