Busycotypus

Busycotypus is a genus of very large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Busycotypinae.

Busycotypus

ChildofMidnight at English Wikipedia · 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
Sits inside
BusycotypinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
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 13.82 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 18 of 73 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 73 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 44 of 73 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.5–9.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.1–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.6–8.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.1–7.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.6–7.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.2–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–6.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.2–5.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.7–5.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.3–4.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.3–3.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.3–2.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.9–2.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.4–1.9 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences1.4–955 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences955 ka–477 ka Mya — about 4 occurrences477 ka–0 Mya — about 23 occurrences11.63 Mya129 ka14.3 Mya0 Mya

73 occurrences of Busycotypus 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

73 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

19 formations

Pamlico — 32.69°N, 80.23°WPamlico — 32.83°N, 79.94°WPamlico — 34.04°N, 77.89°WPamlico — 34.78°N, 76.69°WPamlico — 35.70°N, 75.74°WPamlico — 35.50°N, 76.27°WPamlico — 35.59°N, 76.23°WSt Marys — 38.27°N, 76.15°WSt Marys — 38.32°N, 76.42°WSt Marys — 38.17°N, 76.44°WYorktown — 37.27°N, 76.57°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.14°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WSaint Marys — 38.17°N, 76.44°WSaint Marys — 37.86°N, 76.84°WAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WFort Thompson — 27.06°N, 82.26°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WNorfolk — 36.92°N, 76.49°WNorfolk — 36.79°N, 76.41°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 34.56°N, 78.49°WEastover — 37.79°N, 76.72°WEastover — 37.82°N, 76.75°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WTalbot — 38.15°N, 76.43°WHorry Clay — 34.97°N, 76.97°WChowan River — 36.05°N, 76.73°WSt Mary's — 38.36°N, 76.39°WNashua — 27.53°N, 80.81°W

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The named rock units Busycotypus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Busycotypus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Busycotypus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

921 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Busycotypus, 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

16 references

Each of the 73 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. 4 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 content1

Picture of Busycotypus

Credit
ChildofMidnight at English Wikipedia
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Busycotypus 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

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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 itBusycotypinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wenz 1943)