Nuttallia nuttallii

Nuttallia nuttallii

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
purple clamPBDB
Sits inside
NuttalliaPBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB, for Psammobiidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Psammobiidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Psammobiidae
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 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 8 of 12 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 12 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.333 Mya129 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

12 occurrences of Nuttallia nuttallii 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

12 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

7 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WPancho Rico — 35.99°N, 120.79°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WJacalitos — 36.04°N, 120.39°WEtchegoin — 36.23°N, 120.31°WPalos Verdes — 33.63°N, 117.90°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°W

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The named rock units Nuttallia nuttallii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Nuttallia nuttallii and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Nuttallia nuttallii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

616 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Nuttallia nuttallii, 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 12 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 content2

Picture of Nuttallia nuttallii

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itNuttallia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1837)