Bullia

Bullia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.

Bullia

G. Sowerby (either George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812–1884) or George Brettingham Sowerby III (1843–1921) · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
BulliinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nassariidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Nassariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 6 of 120 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 63 of 120 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 120 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 120 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 17 of 120 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 120 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 4 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 4 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 12 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 16 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences10–8.4 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.3–4.2 Mya — about 6 occurrences4.2–2.1 Mya — about 15 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 22 occurrences59.24 Mya129 ka63 Mya0 Mya

120 occurrences of Bullia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

120 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

25 formations

Weches — 30.00°N, 97.15°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.53°N, 94.41°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 88.05°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.65°N, 88.08°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.36°N, 88.70°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.38°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 30.01°N, 97.16°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.72°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.57°N, 87.58°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WTalar — 25.33°N, 65.50°ETuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.81°N, 87.48°WVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EPielach — 48.15°N, 15.17°EPielach — 48.22°N, 15.30°EPielach — 48.22°N, 15.36°EBredasdorp — 34.53°S, 20.03°EBredasdorp — 33.88°S, 18.45°EReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.81°N, 96.65°WAlexandria — 33.97°S, 25.62°EAlexandria — 33.80°S, 25.61°ENanafalia — 31.82°N, 86.62°WNanafalia — 32.25°N, 87.77°WMcBean — 33.49°N, 80.86°WUpper Cyrena — 47.50°N, 19.08°EEmpire — 42.84°N, 124.56°WHatchetigbee Bluff or Gosport Sand — 31.93°N, 87.75°WLisbon — 31.54°N, 87.52°WYazoo — 35.01°N, 90.79°WKosciusko — 32.17°N, 88.83°WSooke — 48.38°N, 123.87°WHatchetigbee — 31.96°N, 88.30°WQueen City — 30.01°N, 97.16°WYegua — 30.63°N, 96.51°WWautubbee — 32.34°N, 89.14°W

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The named rock units Bullia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bullia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Bullia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,271 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Bullia, 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

27 references

Each of the 120 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. 15 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 Bullia

Credit
G. Sowerby (either George Brettingham Sowerby II (1812–1884) or George Brettingham Sowerby III (1843–1921)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Gray 1834)