PBDB Taxon

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

Saccella catasarca

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae

Taxonomy

Saccella catasarca is a species.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Nuculana duplicarina, Nuculana fragilis, Nuculana gnonom, Nuculana nagaoi, Nuculana wajampolkana, S. communis, S. miensis, S. panayensis, S. robusta, S. tumida

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
2002	Saccella catasarca Kosnik

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	Nuculaniformii	Carter et al. 2000
order	Nuculanida	(Carter et al. 2000)
superfamily	Nuculanoidea	Adams and Adams 1858
family	Nuculanidae	Adams and Adams 1858
genus	Saccella	Woodring 1925
species	catasarca

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.

†Saccella catasarca

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 mobileg

Life habit:

shallow infaunalg

Diet:

deposit feederg

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2009-09-09 13:24:17

Modified:

2009-10-11 13:02:28

Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Sanchez Roig 1926, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Lutetian to the top of the Bartonian or 48.07000 to 37.71000 Ma

Collections (10 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	USA (Virginia)	Saccella catasarca (1445 1446)
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	USA (Texas)	Saccella catasarca (205496 205527)
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	USA (Alabama)	Saccella catasarca (1440 1441 1442 1443 1444)
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	USA (Mississippi)	Saccella catasarca (90709)