Buchia

Searched as Aucella terebratuloides regularis. The Paleobiology Database treats Buchia as the accepted name.

Buchia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BuchiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Buchiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Pectinida

Time the record covers

At most 4.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 137.05 Mya and 132.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous137–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–134 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137.6 Mya132.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Buchia on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

2 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

1 formation

Rurikfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.94°E

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The named rock units Buchia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Buchia and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Buchia and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

339 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 641 sites for Buchia, and this reads 240 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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Buchia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Buchia was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itBuchiidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Keyserling 1846