Bournonia bournoni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BournoniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunal, gregariousPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Hippuritida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hippuritida
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Bournonia bournoni on record, most of them in the Late 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Bournonia bournoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bournonia bournoni and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Bournonia bournoni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Biradiolites5 sites
- Hippurites4 sites
- Bournonia excavata3 sites
- Hippuritella lapeirousei3 sites
- Praeradiolites3 sites
- Radiolites3 sites
- Biradiolites lameracensis2 sites
- Hippuritella2 sites
- Joufia reticulata2 sites
- Lapeirousia2 sites
- Lapeirousia jouanneti2 sites
- Lyriochlamys2 sites
- Pseudopolyconites2 sites
- Radiolitella maestrichtiana2 sites
- Sabinia2 sites
- Sauvagesia2 sites
- Agerostrea ungulatus1 site
- Agriopleura1 site
- Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) pliciferum1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Antillocaprina1 site
- Apricardia1 site
- Artigesia1 site
- Barrettia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Bournonia bournoni, 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
4 references- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages2
- On the Senonian rudist-bearing sediments in Yugoslavia2
- Les Faunes de Rudistes du Crétacé Supérieur Charentais du Chantier de I’Autoroute "L’Aquitaine"1
- Notas sobre rudistas [Notes about rudists]1
Each of the 6 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. 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 Bournonia bournoni
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bournonia bournoni 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 itBournonia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Desmoulins 1826