Bucaniidae

Bucaniidae is an extinct family of Paleozoic molluscs of uncertain position possibly being either gastropods or monoplacophorans in the superfamily Bellerophontoidea. The family lived from the Lower Ordovician to the Devonian and have shells in which the apertural margins tend to flare. Most genera have a slit and selenizone, others some modification of this feature.

Bucaniidae

Tõnis Saadre · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
Sits inside
BellerophontoideaPBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
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 698 occurrencesOrdovician — about 551 of 698 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 114 of 698 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 23 of 698 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 698 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 698 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 698 occurrences492–483 Mya — about 1 occurrence483–475 Mya — about 3 occurrences475–467 Mya — about 21 occurrences467–459 Mya — about 57 occurrences459–451 Mya — about 304 occurrences451–443 Mya — about 166 occurrences443–435 Mya — about 36 occurrences435–426 Mya — about 42 occurrences426–418 Mya — about 36 occurrences418–410 Mya — about 15 occurrences410–402 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences402–394 Mya — about 1 occurrence394–386 Mya — about 2 occurrences386–378 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences378–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–361 Mya — about 1 occurrence361–353 Mya — about 2 occurrences329–321 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences321–312 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences312–304 Mya — about 1 occurrence304–296 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–255 Mya — about 2 occurrences255–247 Mya — about 3 occurrences477.1 Mya254.14 Mya492 Mya247 Mya

698 occurrences of Bucaniidae 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

698 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

221 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.77°WLexington Limestone — 38.00°N, 84.67°WLexington Limestone — 37.65°N, 84.95°WLexington Limestone — 38.22°N, 84.93°WLexington Limestone — 38.17°N, 84.84°WLexington Limestone — 37.69°N, 84.76°WLexington Limestone — 37.63°N, 84.73°WLexington Limestone — 37.67°N, 84.94°WLexington Limestone — 37.77°N, 84.61°WLexington Limestone — 36.17°N, 86.78°WLexington Limestone — 37.85°N, 84.51°WLexington Limestone — 38.04°N, 84.79°WKopanina — 49.96°N, 14.18°EKopanina — 50.05°N, 14.37°EKopanina — 50.67°N, 15.17°EKopanina — 49.93°N, 14.05°EKopanina — 49.94°N, 14.19°ECrown 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°WVäo — 59.42°N, 24.75°EVäo — 59.47°N, 24.94°EVäo — 59.58°N, 25.97°EVäo — 59.29°N, 23.39°EMartinsburg — 37.38°N, 80.86°WCummingsville — 44.00°N, 92.45°WCummingsville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WChaumont — 45.45°N, 76.69°WChaumont — 45.88°N, 76.93°WChaumont — 45.52°N, 73.58°WChaumont — 45.42°N, 75.74°WChaumont — 45.43°N, 75.53°WChaumont — 45.03°N, 74.83°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°EWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WWhitewater — 38.00°N, 85.50°WWhitewater — 39.83°N, 84.89°WWhitewater — 39.63°N, 84.65°WPlatteville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WPlatteville — 43.30°N, 91.78°WPlatteville — 42.51°N, 89.03°WQuimbys Mill — 42.00°N, 90.50°WQuimbys Mill — 41.85°N, 89.48°WQuimbys Mill — 44.98°N, 93.27°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WBobcaygeon — 45.54°N, 75.29°WBobcaygeon — 45.88°N, 76.93°WVerulam — 44.60°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.50°N, 78.67°WVerulam — 44.52°N, 78.97°WVerulam — 44.43°N, 78.78°WVerulam — 44.48°N, 78.95°WCliffield — 37.08°N, 81.71°WCliffield — 37.17°N, 81.48°WCliffield — 37.13°N, 81.48°WJupiter — 49.47°N, 63.62°WJupiter — 49.38°N, 63.60°WJupiter — 49.42°N, 63.67°WHermitage — 35.80°N, 86.12°WHermitage — 35.50°N, 86.50°WHermitage — 36.17°N, 86.78°WProsser Limestone — 46.00°N, 94.00°WStewartville — 46.00°N, 94.00°WMifflin — 42.00°N, 90.50°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNachusa — 42.00°N, 90.50°WSpechts Ferry — 42.00°N, 90.50°W

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The named rock units Bucaniidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 197 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bucaniidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Bucaniidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

2,661 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 475 sites for Bucaniidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

151 references

Each of the 698 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. 139 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 Bucaniidae

Credit
Tõnis Saadre
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bucaniidae 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ulrich and Scofield 1897