Saccella

Saccella is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Nuculanidae.

Saccella

Marie HENNION · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
NuculanidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feederPBDB
Life habit
shallow infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 742 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 70 of 742 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 136 of 742 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 67 of 742 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 240 of 742 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 126 of 742 occurrencesPleistocene — about 99 of 742 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 5 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 21 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 20 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 18 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 17 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 17 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 17 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 10 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 9 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 13 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 22 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 34 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 17 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 15 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 19 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 21 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 20 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 25 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 42 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 46 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 58 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 43 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 112 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 119 occurrences72.2 Mya11.7 ka85 Mya0 Mya

742 occurrences of Saccella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

742 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

168 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.29°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.83°N, 120.38°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.86°N, 120.46°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.74°N, 120.41°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.33°N, 118.72°WPico — 34.43°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.47°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WEugene — 44.06°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.16°N, 123.05°WEugene — 45.21°N, 123.20°WEugene — 44.04°N, 123.04°WEugene — 44.04°N, 123.06°WEugene — 44.98°N, 123.18°WEugene — 44.94°N, 123.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.37°N, 88.68°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.35°N, 86.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.25°N, 88.43°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.32°N, 86.00°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.45°N, 85.63°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.53°N, 87.32°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 122.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.59°N, 123.21°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.13°N, 123.37°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.69°N, 123.19°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.82°N, 123.18°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.86°N, 123.11°WPittsburg Bluff — 46.00°N, 123.26°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.83°N, 123.98°WPittsburg Bluff — 45.90°N, 123.15°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.94°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WSanta Susana — 34.29°N, 118.69°WSanta Susana — 34.24°N, 118.74°WAstoria — 44.73°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 44.65°N, 124.06°WTowsley — 34.36°N, 118.51°WTowsley — 34.34°N, 118.54°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.80°N, 96.95°WKincaid — 31.22°N, 96.91°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WMeganos — 37.95°N, 121.85°WMeganos — 37.91°N, 121.74°WMeganos — 37.85°N, 121.64°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WBohio — 9.18°N, 79.88°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.93°WCowlitz — 46.20°N, 123.02°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.62°WEsmeraldas — 0.95°N, 79.74°WEsmeraldas — 0.97°N, 79.65°WEsmeraldas — 0.85°N, 78.98°WNancy Point — 9.07°N, 81.79°WNancy Point — 9.15°N, 81.95°WNancy Point — 9.14°N, 81.95°WTejon — 34.96°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.93°N, 118.87°WTejon — 34.92°N, 118.97°W

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The named rock units Saccella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 144 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 110 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saccella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Saccella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,326 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 505 sites for Saccella, 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

158 references

Each of the 742 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. 146 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 Saccella

Credit
Marie HENNION
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Saccella vitrea · USNM:IZ:USNM 1446648

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itNuculanidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Woodring 1925)