Busycon

Busycon is a genus of very large edible sea snails in the subfamily Busyconinae. These snails are commonly known in the United States as whelks or Busycon whelks. Less commonly they are loosely, and somewhat misleadingly, called "conchs".

Busycon

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
whelkPBDB
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 least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 220 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 220 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 8 of 220 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 220 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 51 of 220 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 49 of 220 occurrencesPleistocene — about 103 of 220 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 3 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 8 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 17 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 51 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 101 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

220 occurrences of Busycon on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

220 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

38 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.80°N, 81.37°WCaloosahatchee — 26.50°N, 81.20°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 81.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WTamiami — 28.29°N, 81.41°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.42°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.21°N, 81.31°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WWaccamaw — 33.86°N, 78.55°WPamlico — 38.55°N, 75.08°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.78°N, 79.93°WPamlico — 32.85°N, 80.05°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 35.70°N, 75.74°WPamlico — 36.33°N, 76.17°WYorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WYorktown — 34.90°N, 78.05°WYorktown — 35.15°N, 77.14°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.59°N, 84.58°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WAnastasia — 26.65°N, 80.45°WAnastasia — 26.93°N, 80.09°WAnastasia — 26.33°N, 80.13°WAnastasia — 26.98°N, 80.08°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WBermont — 26.38°N, 80.71°WBermont — 26.68°N, 80.67°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.80°N, 81.37°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WSt Marys — 38.16°N, 76.45°WSt Marys — 38.17°N, 76.44°WSt Marys — 38.27°N, 76.15°WSt Marys — 38.32°N, 76.42°WOak Grove — 30.90°N, 84.58°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.97°N, 86.46°WGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WGoose Creek — 33.03°N, 80.39°WChowan RIver — 35.28°N, 76.65°WChowan RIver — 36.05°N, 76.73°WChowan RIver — 34.72°N, 76.66°WDuplin — 34.62°N, 79.01°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WBelgrade — 34.89°N, 77.23°WBelgrade — 34.77°N, 77.18°WNashua — 27.53°N, 80.81°WNorfolk — 36.92°N, 76.49°WNorfolk — 36.79°N, 76.41°WJackson Bluff — 30.43°N, 84.57°WTalbot — 38.07°N, 76.36°WSaint Marys — 38.17°N, 76.44°W

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The named rock units Busycon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Busycon and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Busycon and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,617 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 109 sites for Busycon, 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

43 references

Each of the 220 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. 31 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 content3

Picture of Busycon

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
busycon sp. · MST:PALEO:MST-SP-9000

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

The description on this site

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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 itBusyconinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798