Busycon perversum

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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 least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
12 occurrences of Busycon perversum 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
12 occurrences- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene75%
- Holocene8%
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
- Pamlico Formation3
- Jackson Bluff Formation · Alum Bluff Group2
- Fort Thompson Formation1
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The named rock units Busycon perversum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Busycon perversum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Busycon perversum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
506 taxa- Crassinella lunulata5 sites
- Abra aequalis4 sites
- Anomia simplex4 sites
- Crepidula plana4 sites
- Neverita duplicatus4 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima4 sites
- Oliva (Ispidula) sayana4 sites
- Olivella mutica4 sites
- Plicatula gibbosa4 sites
- Serratina aequistriata4 sites
- Timoclea grus4 sites
- Acteocina canaliculata3 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) lienosa3 sites
- Architectonica nobilis3 sites
- Chione cancellata3 sites
- Crepidula fornicata3 sites
- Dinocardium robustum3 sites
- Diodora cayenensis3 sites
- Ervilia3 sites
- Glycymeris americana3 sites
- Laevicardium serratum3 sites
- Littoraria irrorata3 sites
- Mercenaria campechiensis3 sites
- Mulinia lateralis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Busycon perversum, 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
6 references- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America6
- Miocene pelecypods of the Choctawatchee Formation of Florida2
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Review of the evidence on which the human remains found at Vero, Florida, are referred to the Pleistocene1
- Post-Pleiocene Fossils of South Carolina1
Each of the 12 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 Busycon perversum
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Busycon perversum 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)