Buntonia tenuipunctata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BuntoniaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivore, grazerPBDB, for Podocopida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Podocopida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ostracoda
Time the record covers
At least 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
5 occurrences of Buntonia tenuipunctata on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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.
Buntonia tenuipunctata and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Buntonia tenuipunctata and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Afranticythereis bopaensis2 sites
- Buntonia ouinhiensis2 sites
- Buntonia preklologoensis2 sites
- Paleocosta rectangularis2 sites
- Protobasslerites akinsidensis2 sites
- Soudanocytheridea soudana2 sites
- Actinocythereis modesta1 site
- Bairdoppilata ilaroensis1 site
- Benina sehouensis1 site
- Buntonia issabaensis1 site
- Bythocypris olaredodui1 site
- Cytherella1 site
- Cytherella sylvesterbradleyi1 site
- Cytherelloidea williamsonia1 site
- Isobuntonia harpa1 site
- Isobuntonia tattami yorubaensis1 site
- Leguminocythereis lokossaensis1 site
- Leguminocythereis senegalensis1 site
- Morozovella inconstans1 site
- Morozovella pseudobulloides1 site
- Morozovella uncinata1 site
- Propontocypris nigeriensis1 site
- Soudanella laciniosa1 site
- Subbotina triloculinoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Buntonia tenuipunctata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Les ostracodes paleogènes du Togo: Taxonomie, biostratigraphie, apports dans l'organisation et l'évolution du bassin3
- Données nouvelles biochronologiques et paléoécologiques sur le bassin sédimentaire côtier du Bénin entre le Crétacé supérieur et l'Éocène basal (Afrique de l'ouest)2
Each of the 5 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
Media content0
No picture of Buntonia tenuipunctata was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Buntonia tenuipunctata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Buntonia tenuipunctata 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 itBuntonia through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Apostolescu 1961