Bucella
Searched as Bucella mansfieldi oregonensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Bucella as the accepted name.
No picture of Bucella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bucella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ForaminiferaPBDB
- Diet
- omnivorePBDB, for Foraminifera
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Foraminifera
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Foraminifera
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Bucella on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
6 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Bucella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bucella and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Bucella and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Elphidium3 sites
- Cribroelphidium2 sites
- Cribrononion2 sites
- Protelphidium2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila)1 site
- Ammonia1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Brizalina1 site
- Buliminella1 site
- Bulliminella elegantissima1 site
- Cibicidoides1 site
- Clinocardium (Keenocardium) californiense1 site
- Conchocele bisecta1 site
- Elphidiella1 site
- Eumetopias1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
- Glyptostrobus pensilis1 site
- Juglans1 site
- Liquidambar1 site
- Lucinoma annulata1 site
- Macoma (Macoma) calcarea1 site
- Menyanthes trifoliata1 site
- Mercenaria1 site
- Metasequoia disticha1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bucella, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Bucella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bucella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bucella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itForaminifera through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.