Bullata semen

Bullata semen

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
Closia (Bullata)PBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 86 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 86 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 85 of 86 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 86 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 22 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 22 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 22 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61.66 Mya37.71 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

86 occurrences of Bullata semen 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

86 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

14 formations

Cook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.36°N, 92.98°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WCook Mountain — 29.99°N, 97.09°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.69°WMoodys Branch — 31.26°N, 93.82°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WCrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.86°WCockfield — 31.88°N, 88.69°WYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WGatuncillo — 9.15°N, 79.73°WBarnwell Sand — 33.56°N, 81.72°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WClayton — 37.18°N, 89.07°W

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The named rock units Bullata semen has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Bullata semen and its relatives

Eocene

Where Bullata semen and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

876 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 71 sites for Bullata semen, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

15 references

Each of the 86 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. 3 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 Bullata semen

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

No 3D scan of Bullata semen 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lea 1833