Busycon fusiformis
No picture of Busycon fusiformis 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 Busycon fusiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BusyconPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Busycon fusiformis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
2 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- Saint Marys Formation · Chesapeake Group1
- St Marys Formation1
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The named rock units Busycon fusiformis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Busycon fusiformis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Busycon fusiformis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
82 taxa- Busycotypus coronatum2 sites
- Busycotypus rugosum2 sites
- Conus diluvianus2 sites
- Nodisurculina engonata2 sites
- Acteon ovoides1 site
- Alca torda1 site
- Anadara (Rasia) andrewsi1 site
- Astarte perplana1 site
- Boreotrophon harasewychi1 site
- Buccinofusus parilis1 site
- Bulliopsis marylandica1 site
- Bulliopsis quadrata1 site
- Busycotypus alveatum1 site
- Busycotypus asheri1 site
- Chesacardium laqueatum laqueatum1 site
- Chesaclava dissimilis1 site
- Chesaclava quarlesi1 site
- Chesapecten jeffersonius1 site
- Chesapecten madisonius1 site
- Chesapecten santamaria1 site
- Chesasyrinx rotifera1 site
- Chesatrophon chesapeakeanus1 site
- Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis1 site
- Conus (Leptoconus) sanctaemariae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Busycon fusiformis, 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 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Busycon fusiformis 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 Busycon fusiformis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Busycon fusiformis 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.
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What may have been alongside itBusycon through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1840)