Busycoarctum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BusyconinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 3.6 Mya and 774 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Busycoarctum on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- Pliocene87%
- Pleistocene13%
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
2 formations
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group4
- Caloosahatchee Formation · Okeechobee Group1
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The named rock units Busycoarctum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Busycoarctum and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Busycoarctum and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
194 taxa- Argopecten3 sites
- Busycon3 sites
- Chicoreus3 sites
- Conus (Contraconus) adversarius3 sites
- Fulguropsis3 sites
- Phyllonotus3 sites
- Pterorhytis3 sites
- Sinistrofulgur3 sites
- Terebraspira3 sites
- Akleistostoma floridana2 sites
- Akleistostoma hughesi2 sites
- Busycotypus2 sites
- Carolinapecten2 sites
- Cassis floridensis2 sites
- Ecphora quadricostata2 sites
- Euvola2 sites
- Ficus2 sites
- Heilprinia2 sites
- Melongena2 sites
- Nodipecten2 sites
- Oliva2 sites
- Oliva (Strephona)2 sites
- Pleioptygma2 sites
- Scaphella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Busycoarctum, 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
2 referencesEach 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 content0
No picture of Busycoarctum 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 Busycoarctum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Busycoarctum 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBusyconinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hollister 1958)