Bedeva
Searched as Bedeva blosvillei curvirostra. The Paleobiology Database treats Bedeva as the accepted name.
Bedeva is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Crosse, 1864 · CC0 · 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
- ErgalataxinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Bedeva 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Bedeva has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bedeva and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Bedeva and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
364 taxa- Mactra5 sites
- Clanculus4 sites
- Leiopyrga4 sites
- Placamen4 sites
- Tawera4 sites
- Bittium3 sites
- Cantharidus3 sites
- Conus3 sites
- Eucrassatella3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Hemidonax3 sites
- Limopsis3 sites
- Natica gualteriana3 sites
- Nuculana (Scaeoleda)3 sites
- Oliva (Strephona) australis3 sites
- Phasianella3 sites
- Rissoina3 sites
- Acteocina2 sites
- Alaba2 sites
- Amalda (Baryspira)2 sites
- Arcopsis2 sites
- Bassina2 sites
- Belloliva2 sites
- Cardita compta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Bedeva, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Bedeva
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Crosse, 1864
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bedeva 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Bedeva”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itErgalataxinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Iredale 1924