Boonea impressa
Boonea impressa, common name the impressed odostome, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. The species is one of twelve known species within the Boonea genus of gastropods.

G.W. Tryon · Public Domain · 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
- BooneaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 762 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
9 occurrences of Boonea impressa 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
9 occurrences- Pleistocene78%
- Holocene22%
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
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The named rock units Boonea impressa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Boonea impressa and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Boonea impressa and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
227 taxa- Crepidula fornicata9 sites
- Abra aequalis8 sites
- Boonea seminuda8 sites
- Mulinia lateralis8 sites
- Nuculana acuta8 sites
- Parvanachis obesa8 sites
- Astyris lunata7 sites
- Crepidula plana7 sites
- Anadara aequicostata6 sites
- Balanus6 sites
- Brachyura6 sites
- Conradostrea sculpturata6 sites
- Cotonopsis (Cotonopsis) lafresnayi6 sites
- Cumingia tellinoides6 sites
- Mercenaria permagna6 sites
- Nassarius antillarum6 sites
- Seila adamsii6 sites
- Sphenia6 sites
- Busycon5 sites
- Chemnitzia5 sites
- Cliona5 sites
- Odostomia5 sites
- Prunum5 sites
- Turbonilla (Pyrgiscus)5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Boonea impressa, 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
5 references- Checklist of megafossils from the James City Formation (Lower Pleistocene) at Johnson Point, Craven County, North Carolina4
- Community replacement of a Pleistocene Crepidula biostrome2
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary seduments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana1
- Pliocene and Pleistocene1
Each of the 9 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 Boonea impressa
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- G.W. Tryon
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Boonea impressa 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 itBoonea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Say 1822)