Bostrycapulus aculeatus

Bostrycapulus aculeatus is a species of sea snail in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails or slipper limpets, cup-and-saucer snails, and hat snails.

Bostrycapulus aculeatus

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
spiny slipper shellPBDB
Sits inside
BostrycapulusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Calyptraeidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Calyptraeidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Calyptraeidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 4 of 96 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 39 of 96 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 41 of 96 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 11 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 19 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 30 occurrences13.82 Mya11.7 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

96 occurrences of Bostrycapulus aculeatus on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

96 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

18 formations

Yorktown — 37.25°N, 76.50°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 37.21°N, 76.69°WYorktown — 37.06°N, 76.63°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.96°WYorktown — 37.15°N, 76.74°WPico — 34.42°N, 118.70°WPico — 34.34°N, 118.51°WPico — 34.36°N, 118.56°WPico — 34.35°N, 118.52°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WChowan RIver — 36.05°N, 76.73°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.64°N, 80.01°WArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WCanepatch — 33.83°N, 78.89°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WMancora Tablazo — 4.58°S, 81.27°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.83°W

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The named rock units Bostrycapulus aculeatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bostrycapulus aculeatus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bostrycapulus aculeatus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,417 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 56 sites for Bostrycapulus aculeatus, and this reads all 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

30 references

Each of the 96 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. 18 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 content1

Picture of Bostrycapulus aculeatus

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H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itBostrycapulus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gmelin 1791)