Bursa ranelloides

Tritonoranella ranelloides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.

Bursa ranelloides

Reeve, 1844 · CC0 · 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
BursaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Bursidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bursidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Bursidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence11.63 Mya129 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Bursa ranelloides 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

5 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

3 formations

Moruga — 10.15°N, 61.03°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.02°WSenhata — 35.16°N, 139.86°E

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The named rock units Bursa ranelloides 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.

Bursa ranelloides and its relatives

Miocene

Where Bursa ranelloides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Bursa ranelloides, 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

4 references

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. 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 Bursa ranelloides

Credit
Reeve, 1844
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bursa ranelloides 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Reeve 1844)