Bucania cornu

GALR · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- BucaniaPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Bucaniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Bellerophontida
Time the record covers
At least 400 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 449.9 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya.
6 occurrences of Bucania cornu on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
6 formations
- Adila Formation1
- Lyckholm Formation1
- Kõrgessaare Formation1
- Korgessaare Formation · Lyckholm Group1
- Gorayivskaya Formation1
- Subica Formation1
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The named rock units Bucania cornu has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bucania cornu and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Bucania cornu and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
161 taxa- Holopea ampullacea4 sites
- Loxoplocus esthona4 sites
- Subulites subula3 sites
- Boreadorthis sadewitziensis2 sites
- Chasmops2 sites
- Chasmops wesenbergensis2 sites
- Cyclonema lineatum2 sites
- Cyclonema rupestre2 sites
- Decoroproetus2 sites
- Holopea filosus2 sites
- Holopea inaequistriata2 sites
- Illaenus2 sites
- Kiaeromena (Bekkeromena) vormsina2 sites
- Latitaenia aequicrescens2 sites
- Leptaena2 sites
- Leptaena wesenbergensis2 sites
- Nicolella oswaldi2 sites
- Pachydictya bifurcata2 sites
- Parastrophina2 sites
- Pharetrolites elegans2 sites
- Platystrophia2 sites
- Platystrophia lutkevichi2 sites
- Prionocheilus2 sites
- Rafinesquina2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Bucania cornu, 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
3 references- Koken and Perner, 19253
- Стратиграфія ордовику Придністров’я (Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transnistria) (= Ordovic Stratigraphy of Transdniestria)2
- Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023)1
Each of the 6 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 Bucania cornu
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- GALR
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBucania through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Koken 1897)