Buccinanops

Buccinanops

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
BuccinanopsidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 64 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 64 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 28 of 64 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 64 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 64 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 64 occurrencesPleistocene — about 10 of 64 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 5 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–37 Mya — about 5 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 10 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

64 occurrences of Buccinanops on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

64 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

17 formations

San Emigdio — 35.06°N, 119.18°WPendleton Ferry — 31.40°N, 93.70°WPendleton Ferry — 31.47°N, 93.57°WPendleton Ferry — 31.35°N, 93.57°WPendleton Ferry — 31.76°N, 93.09°WPendleton Ferry — 31.74°N, 93.40°WSabinetown Bluff — 31.40°N, 93.70°WSabinetown Bluff — 31.43°N, 93.85°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.66°WSubmeseta — 64.23°S, 56.63°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.81°N, 96.65°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WWeches — 31.61°N, 94.64°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WKemp Clay — 30.33°N, 97.46°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WEntrerriense — 42.17°S, 64.08°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.52°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WMarthaville — 31.74°N, 93.40°WChuy — 33.95°S, 58.33°WQueen City — 30.01°N, 97.16°WWheatland — 39.07°N, 121.36°WGaiman — 43.36°S, 65.45°W

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The named rock units Buccinanops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Buccinanops and its relatives

Eocene

Where Buccinanops and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

559 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Buccinanops, 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

14 references

Each of the 64 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. 2 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 Buccinanops

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Buccinanops 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 itBuccinanopsidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1841)