Marsupina bufo

Marsupina bufo, common name the chestnut frog shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.

Marsupina bufo

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MarsupinaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Bursidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bursidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Bursidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 7 of 40 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 32 of 40 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 1 of 40 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.4–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 12 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.6–1.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences1.1–549 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11.63 Mya2.58 Mya16.5 Mya0 Mya

40 occurrences of Marsupina bufo on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

40 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

17 formations

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WCayo Agua — 9.14°N, 82.01°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.25°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.28°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WTamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WTamiami — 27.33°N, 82.53°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WPunta Gavilan — 11.45°N, 68.86°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WMao — 19.55°N, 71.17°WCerro Negro — 10.82°N, 64.18°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WCumana — 10.46°N, 64.18°WPlaya Grande — 10.61°N, 63.52°WCharco Azul — 8.45°N, 82.83°W

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The named rock units Marsupina bufo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Marsupina bufo and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Marsupina bufo and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

268 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Marsupina bufo, 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

10 references

Each of the 40 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 Marsupina bufo

Credit
Shellnut
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Marsupina bufo 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

Licence
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 itMarsupina through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bruguiére 1792)