...Fig. 5.— Comparison of Nuculana acuta prodissoconch (PI) size in living and death assemblages in coastal Alabama. A ) All live-dead PI data (full dataset), including specimens of all taphonomic grades. B ) Live-dead PI data restricted to only better preserved specimens (Taphonomic Grades 1...

... or aperture view. Fig. 5. — Cerithium muscarum Say, 1832, size—19×7 mm., front or aperture view. Fig. 6. — Crepidula plana Say, 1822, size—22×12 mm., a. exterior, b. interior. Fig. 7. — Retusa canaliculata (Say, 1827), size—6×3 mm., a. back, b. aperture. Fig. 8. — Nuculana acuta Conrad...

... SALINITIES 4. Retusa canaliculata , size—6 × 3 mm., a. aperture, b. back. 5. Nuculana concentrica , size—11 × 6 mm., a. interior, b. exterior. 6. Nuculana acuta , size—6 × 4 mm., a. interior, b. exterior. 7. Mulinia lateralis , size—10 × 7 mm., a. interior, b. exterior. 8. Tagelus plebeius , size—42...

... 10. Nuculana acuta (Conrad). a, b, ×6.4 Ia * , Ib-IIa 11. Ensis directus (Conrad). a, b, ×1 Ia, Ib-IIa 12. Syndosmya aequalis (Say). a, b, ×2.3 Ia, Ib-IIa, IIb 13. Donax variabilis Say. a, b, ×2.8 Ia * , Ib-IIa 14. Divaricella quadrisulcata (Orbigny). a. b, ×3.4 Ia * , Ib...

... and II-III. Assemblage I Abra aequalis Say Anadara transversa Say Chione cancellata Linne Cardita floridana Conrad Lucina amiantus Dall Lucina multilineata Tuomey and Holmes Lucina nassula Conrad Nucula proxima Say Nuculana acuta Conrad Tagelus divisus Spengler...

.... Finally, the burrowing deposit feeder Nuculana acuta , which eats buried organic detritus, should be more abundant in undisturbed sediments. The picture that emerges for this paleocommunity is of seagrass meadows with clusters of epifaunal oysters and other epifaunal taxa attached to both plants...

... Formation of Spain (Delvene, 2001 ). Mongin ( 1967 , p. 41, pl. 1, figs. 15, 16) recorded Nuculana ( Dacryomya ) cf. D . lacryma (Sowerby) from the Bathonian of Morocco, and Holzapfel ( 1998 , p. 95, pl. 3, fig. 5a, b) recorded Dacryomya acuta Mérian (of de Loriol, 1899 , p. 164, pl. 10, figs. 29...

...-Toa Palaeonucula sp. Pli/Toa Palaeonucula ? sp. (?) L Pli Pli/Toa Nuculanoidea Nuculana ovum (J. de C. Sowerby) L Pli–L Toa U Pli–L Toa U Pli Pli/Toa Ryderia tehuelchana n. sp. Pli/Toa Phaenodesmia piatnitzkyi n. sp. Pli/Toa Palaeoneilo patagonidica...

....; Nucula proxima Say, 1822; Donax sp. fragment; Turbonilla interrupta (Totten, 1835); Acteocina sp.; Anadara transversa (Say, 1822); and Nuculana acuta (ComSid, 1831). At 12736, mollusks found were Mulinia lateralis (Say, 1822), Crepidula sp., Pecten sp., and Nucula sp. The sample...

... bivalve Nuculana acuta from the Gulf of Mexico, which also has lecithotrophic larvae, show that larval size decreases with increasing eutrophication ( Harnik et al., 2017 ). As nutrient levels increase, larvae require less nutrient storage capacity before reaching the conditions necessary...

... and gastropods. Carditamera floridana , an epibyssate nestler, accounts for 25–44% of specimens in these samples. The shallowly burrowing bivalve Chione cancellata and the deposit-feeding Nuculana acuta are also relatively abundant. The upper paleocommunity is dominated by infaunal suspension- and deposit...