Buccinum

Buccinum is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Buccinum

Hans Hillewaert · 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
BuccininaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 143 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 186 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 186 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 186 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 186 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 186 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 186 occurrencesMiocene — about 24 of 186 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 30 of 186 occurrencesPleistocene — about 82 of 186 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–25 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences25–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–10 Mya — about 8 occurrences10–5.1 Mya — about 12 occurrences5.1–0 Mya — about 144 occurrences143.1 Mya11.7 ka152 Mya0 Mya

186 occurrences of Buccinum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

186 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

38 formations

Presumpscot — 43.84°N, 70.10°WPresumpscot — 44.10°N, 70.21°WPresumpscot — 43.50°N, 70.44°WPresumpscot — 44.55°N, 69.63°WPresumpscot — 44.23°N, 69.78°WPresumpscot — 43.64°N, 70.26°WPresumpscot — 43.35°N, 70.50°WPresumpscot — 43.31°N, 69.78°WPresumpscot — 43.91°N, 69.97°WPresumpscot — 44.13°N, 68.87°WTachilni — 54.98°N, 162.85°WTachilni — 54.79°N, 163.36°WTachilni — 54.95°N, 163.05°WTachilni — 54.97°N, 163.17°WTachilni — 54.85°N, 163.41°WGubik — 70.90°N, 155.96°WGubik — 70.07°N, 151.39°WGubik — 69.35°N, 162.80°WGubik — 71.39°N, 156.48°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.57°WBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WBarton Beds — 51.28°N, 0.63°WRed Crag — 52.03°N, 1.32°ERed Crag — 52.10°N, 1.45°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°EWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°WNarrow Cape — 56.54°N, 154.34°WTentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°EKap Kobenhavn — 82.38°N, 21.00°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.54°N, 20.50°WCoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.07°N, 1.47°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°ENarrrow Cape Formaton — 56.54°N, 154.34°WLillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°EAlexandria — 33.82°S, 25.65°EFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WOpoka — 51.33°N, 21.97°ESagavanirktok — 69.97°N, 144.70°WTatsunokuchi — 39.07°N, 141.18°EAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WTomioka — 42.77°N, 143.02°ESaanich — 47.58°N, 122.42°WElk River — 42.74°N, 124.49°WVindobonian Marl — 36.00°N, 51.18°ECaloosahatchee — 26.93°N, 82.05°WChamplain Clay — 45.85°N, 71.18°W

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The named rock units Buccinum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 100 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Buccinum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Buccinum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,052 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 92 sites for Buccinum, 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

65 references

Each of the 186 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. 53 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 content2

Picture of Buccinum

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itBuccininae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)