Buccinum strigillatum
Buccinum strigillatum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

Jan Delsing · 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
- BuccinumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Buccinum strigillatum on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
3 occurrences- Pliocene67%
- Pleistocene33%
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
3 formations
- Elk River Formation1
- Wildcat Formation1
- Rio Dell Formation · Wildcat Group1
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The named rock units Buccinum strigillatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Buccinum strigillatum and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Buccinum strigillatum and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Boreotrophon fleenerensis2 sites
- Acharax ventricosa1 site
- Antiplanes voyi1 site
- Caesia fossatus1 site
- Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) hippocastanum1 site
- Chione californiensis1 site
- Clinocardium (Clinocardium) meekianum1 site
- Conchocele bisecta1 site
- Cryptonatica affinis1 site
- Fulgoraria oregonensis1 site
- Fusitriton oregonensis1 site
- Leukoma staminea1 site
- Lituyapecten dilleri1 site
- Lucinoma acutilineata1 site
- Lyonsia californica1 site
- Macoma nasuta1 site
- Mactromeris albaria1 site
- Mactromeris brevirostrata1 site
- Mactromeris catilliformis1 site
- Mactromeris polynyma1 site
- Musculus (Musculus) stalderi1 site
- Neostylidium eschrichtii1 site
- Neptunea (Colus) eurekaensis1 site
- Neptunea (Neptunea) andersoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Buccinum strigillatum, 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
3 references- Catalogue of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California1
- Descriptions of new species of fossil Mollusca from the later marine Neocene of California1
- The marine Tertiary stratigraphy of the North Pacific coast of America1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Buccinum strigillatum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Buccinum strigillatum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBuccinum through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1891