Bullaria

Bullaria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CylichnidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cylichnidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cylichnidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cylichnidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 89 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 23 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 23 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 23 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 23 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 23 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 23 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–9.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.6–6.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.4–3.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.2–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences89.8 Mya129 ka96 Mya0 Mya

23 occurrences of Bullaria on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

23 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

10 formations

Cercado — 19.46°N, 71.10°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.20°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.68°WLadd — 33.71°N, 117.62°WTamala Limestone — 32.00°S, 115.81°EJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WLas Cahobas — 18.54°N, 72.28°WCervicos Limestone — 19.38°N, 70.82°WArmuelles — 8.03°N, 82.92°WPonce — 18.01°N, 66.61°WRio Banano — 9.66°N, 82.75°WMaissade — 18.90°N, 72.04°W

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The named rock units Bullaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bullaria and its relatives

Miocene

Where Bullaria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

638 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Bullaria, 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

14 references

Each of the 23 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. 2 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 content1

Picture of Bullaria

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iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCylichnidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1815