Bucanella nana
No picture of Bucanella nana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bucanella nana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BucanellaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bucanellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bucanellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Bucanellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At most 9.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.4 Mya and 477.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Bucanella nana on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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 Bucanella nana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bucanella nana and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bucanella nana and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Ceratopea sinclairensis2 sites
- Eocrinoidea2 sites
- Hystricurus2 sites
- Nanorthis putilla2 sites
- Syntrophina2 sites
- Clarkoceras1 site
- Dakeoceras1 site
- Drepanodus1 site
- Gasconadia1 site
- Gasconadia putilla1 site
- Hystricurus crassilimbatus1 site
- Lecanospira1 site
- Lingulella1 site
- Lloydia (Evansaspis) formosa1 site
- Macluritella1 site
- Macluritella gyroceras1 site
- Macluritella uniangulata1 site
- Macropyge1 site
- Tropidodiscus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Bucanella nana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Lower Ordovician (Arenig) faunas from the Williston Basin, Montana and North Dakota2
- Geology of the Bristol and Wallace quadrangles, Virginia1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Bucanella nana was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bucanella nana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bucanella nana 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBucanella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1871