Bucania

Bucania

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BucaniinaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Bucaniidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bucaniidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Bucaniidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida

Time the record covers

At least 222 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 196 occurrencesOrdovician — about 178 of 196 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 12 of 196 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 2 of 196 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 196 occurrencesPermian — about 4 of 196 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 196 occurrences492–483 Mya — about 1 occurrence483–475 Mya — about 3 occurrences475–467 Mya — about 16 occurrences467–459 Mya — about 29 occurrences459–451 Mya — about 91 occurrences451–443 Mya — about 38 occurrences443–435 Mya — about 8 occurrences435–426 Mya — about 4 occurrences426–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–410 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences394–386 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–255 Mya — about 2 occurrences255–247 Mya — about 2 occurrences477.1 Mya254.14 Mya492 Mya247 Mya

196 occurrences of Bucania 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

196 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

87 formations

Crown Point — 44.58°N, 73.53°WCrown Point — 44.63°N, 73.41°WCrown Point — 44.88°N, 73.44°WCrown Point — 44.87°N, 73.33°WCrown Point — 44.94°N, 73.45°WCrown Point — 43.95°N, 73.44°WValcour — 44.88°N, 73.34°WValcour — 44.62°N, 73.42°WValcour — 44.30°N, 73.31°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.77°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 38.22°N, 84.93°WLexington Limestone — 38.17°N, 84.84°WLexington Limestone — 37.63°N, 84.73°WLexington Limestone — 37.77°N, 84.61°WLexington Limestone — 37.85°N, 84.51°WLexington Limestone — 38.04°N, 84.79°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMartinsburg — 37.38°N, 80.86°WViivikonna — 59.36°N, 26.97°EViivikonna — 59.39°N, 27.23°EViivikonna — 59.35°N, 27.01°EViivikonna — 59.34°N, 27.06°EViivikonna — 59.38°N, 24.41°EViivikonna — 59.32°N, 24.51°EDay Point — 44.87°N, 73.48°WDay Point — 44.61°N, 73.41°WDay Point — 44.68°N, 73.45°WKõrgessaare — 58.98°N, 22.46°EKõrgessaare — 59.02°N, 23.14°EKõrgessaare — 59.00°N, 22.77°EKõrgessaare — 59.08°N, 23.61°EKõrgessaare — 58.99°N, 24.78°ELexington — 37.79°N, 84.50°WLexington — 37.73°N, 84.77°WFuruberget — 60.75°N, 11.02°EFuruberget — 59.84°N, 10.42°EFuruberget — 59.50°N, 10.33°EWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 39.83°N, 84.89°WVerulam — 44.60°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WVerulam — 44.48°N, 78.95°WMingan — 50.30°N, 64.05°WMingan — 50.21°N, 63.80°WReynales — 43.17°N, 77.63°WGlenwood — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPecatonica — 42.00°N, 90.50°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNachusa — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°W

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The named rock units Bucania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 63 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bucania and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Bucania and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,529 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 174 sites for Bucania, 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

55 references

Each of the 196 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. 43 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 Bucania

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bucania 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 itBucaniinae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1847)