Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Bufonaria (Bufonaria)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Bursidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bursidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Bursidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
12 occurrences of Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana on record. 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
12 occurrences- Pliocene8%
- Pleistocene92%
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
2 formations
- Toukoshan Formation · Miaoli Group9
- Nakasi Formation1
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The named rock units Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
230 taxa- Nassarius8 sites
- Natica alapapilionis8 sites
- Anadara7 sites
- Crassatella7 sites
- Murex7 sites
- Placamen tiara7 sites
- Turritella7 sites
- Venericardia7 sites
- Lophiotoma6 sites
- Pecten6 sites
- Striarca6 sites
- Turricula6 sites
- Amusium5 sites
- Clavatula5 sites
- Conasprella (Fusiconus) aculeiformis5 sites
- Crassispira5 sites
- Cucullaea granulosa5 sites
- Oliva5 sites
- Imbricaria flammea4 sites
- Paphia4 sites
- Pitar4 sites
- Architectonica perspectiva3 sites
- Chlamys (Azumapecten) squamata3 sites
- Clathrodrillia3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana, 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
4 references- Faunal analysis of the Upper Miaoli Group in the Tunghsiao area, Miaoli Province, Formosa, China9
- An Early Pleistocene molluscan assemblage from Fiji: gastropod faunal composition, paleoecology and biogeography1
- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits1
- Mollusken aus posttertiären Schichten von Celebes1
Each of the 12 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 Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- mvlichens
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Bufonaria (Bufonaria) rana 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.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)