PBDB Taxon

Basic info	Taxonomic history	Classification	Included Taxa
Morphology	Ecology and taphonomy	External Literature Search	Age range and collections

Nucula margaritifera

Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae

Taxonomy

Nucula margaritifera was named by Douvillé (1916). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Gebel Manzour (Albian slope indet.), which is in an Albian marine horizon in Egypt.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

N. angusta, N. calliope, N. cipleyensis, N. ciplyensis, N. cochlear, N. dasa, N. defuniak, N. dixoni, N. fritschi, N. guillermensis, N. indica, N. meadinga, N. microconcentrica, N. otamatea, N. pectinata, N. potomacensis, N. praelongata, N. pulchra, N. rivulana, N. sagittata, N. stachei, N. subtrigona, N. silicea, N. mametschinskensis, N. planata, N. aptera, N. waiaotea, N. waiotea, N. eudorae, Nuculana smithvillensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1916	Nucula margaritifera Douville
1916	Nucula margaritifera Douvillé p. 177 figs. Pl. 21, Fig. 19-21
2006	Nucula margaritifera El Qot p. 16

Is something missing? Join the Paleobiology Database and enter the data

Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Bivalvia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Eubivalvia
subclass	Protobranchia	(Pelseneer 1889)
superorder	Nuculiformii	Dall 1889
order	Nuculida	(Dall 1889)
superfamily	Nuculoidea	(Gray 1824)
family	Nuculidae	Gray 1824
genus	Nucula	Lamarck 1799
species	margaritifera

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Nucula margaritifera Douvillé 1916

show all | hide all

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitef

Entire body:

yesf

Adult length:

1.0 to < 10f

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10f

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10f

Thickness:

thinf

Folds:

nonef

Ribbing:

minorf

Spines:

nonef

Internal reinforcement:

nonef

Ontogeny:

accretionf

Environment:

coastal, inner shelf, outer shelf, oceanicf

Locomotion:

facultatively mobilef

Life habit:

infaunalf

Diet:

deposit feederf

Diet 2:

suspension feederf

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2008-11-15 10:09:53

Modified:

2009-08-18 20:13:53

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Mikkelsen and Bieler 2008, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Middle Albian to the top of the Early/Lower Cenomanian or 110.10000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections (15 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Albian	113.2 - 100.5	Egypt	Nucula margaritifera (type locality: 171406)
Middle Albian	110.1 - 106.3	Egypt	Nucula margaritifera (98326)
Late/Upper Albian	106.3 - 100.5	Egypt	Nucula margaritifera (98327 114866 140606 140608)
Late/Upper Albian - Cenomanian	106.3 - 93.9	Egypt	Nucula margaritifera (150677 150737)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Egypt	Nucula margaritifera (114873)
Late/Upper Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Egypt	Nucula margaritifera (114794 114795 114810 140578)
Middle Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Egypt	Nucula margaritifera (140539)
Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Egypt	Nucula margaritifera (150611)