Buccinulum

Buccinulum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the whelk family Tudiclidae.

Buccinulum

GrahamBould · Public Domain · 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
TudiclidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 129 ka.

Oligocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–4.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.6–3.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–1.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences928 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences23.04 Mya774 ka27.8 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Buccinulum on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

11 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

6 formations

Rifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.08°S, 170.95°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EWaiomio — 40.03°S, 175.48°ENicosia — 35.10°N, 33.15°EEntrerriense — 42.25°S, 64.08°WOtekaike Limestone — 44.79°S, 170.51°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°E

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The named rock units Buccinulum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Buccinulum and its relatives

Miocene

Where Buccinulum and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

177 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Buccinulum, 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

6 references

Each of the 11 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 Buccinulum

Credit
GrahamBould
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Buccinulum 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itTudiclidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1837