Buccitriton sagenum

Harris · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- BuccitritonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
38 occurrences of Buccitriton sagenum on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
38 occurrencesThese 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
10 formations
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group16
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group9
- Stone City Formation3
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group3
- McBean Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Crockett Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Buccitriton sagenum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Buccitriton sagenum and its relatives
EoceneWhere Buccitriton sagenum and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
592 taxa- Athleta petrosa18 sites
- Bullata semen17 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda17 sites
- Retusa galba16 sites
- Agaronia alabamensis15 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus15 sites
- Haustator carinata15 sites
- Mesalia vetusta15 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta15 sites
- Ancilla staminea14 sites
- Caestocorbula murchisonii14 sites
- Callista (Callista) perovata14 sites
- Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis14 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina14 sites
- Glycymeris staminea14 sites
- Glycymeris trigonella14 sites
- Parmicorbula gibbosa14 sites
- Venericardia (Pleuromeris) parva14 sites
- Bathytormus protextus13 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) aequorea13 sites
- Crepidula lirata13 sites
- Lirodiscus tellinoides13 sites
- Lucina13 sites
- Natica (Naticarius) semilunata13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Buccitriton sagenum, 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
9 references- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama11
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda11
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals3
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)3
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region3
- Community structure and evaluation of trophic analysis in paleoecology Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene, Texas)3
- Lower Eocene Faunal Units of Lousiana2
- Late Paleocene examples of residual coloration and embryonic features in juvenile marine mollusks from Northwest Louisiana1
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area1
Each of the 38 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 Buccitriton sagenum
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Harris
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Buccitriton sagenum 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 itBuccitriton through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)