Buccinaria
Buccinaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.

Jan Delsing · 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
- RaphitomidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Conoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Conoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Conoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 774 ka.
7 occurrences of Buccinaria on record. 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
7 occurrences- Miocene51%
- Pliocene35%
- Pleistocene14%
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
- Shimajiri Formation4
- Batuputih Formation · Kupang Group1
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The named rock units Buccinaria 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.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Ancilla (Ancilla) martini1 site
- Ancilla (Turrancilla)1 site
- Architectonica (Architectonica) maxima1 site
- Bathytoma1 site
- Borsonia1 site
- Bursa koperbergae1 site
- Cochlespira pulchella corentiformis1 site
- Comitas1 site
- Conasprella (Fusiconus) pseudorbignyi1 site
- Conus1 site
- Cylindriscala1 site
- Distorsio perdistorta1 site
- Fusinus (Aptyxis) jonkeri1 site
- Gemmula (Gemmula)1 site
- Gemmula (Gemmula) congener congener1 site
- Gemmula (Gemmula) kieneri kieneri1 site
- Gemmula (Gemmula) kieneri woodwardi1 site
- Gemmula (Pinguigemmula)1 site
- Granulifusus niponicus1 site
- Hindsia (Nihonophos) magnifica1 site
- Inquisitor1 site
- Lophiotoma (Lophiotoma)1 site
- Lucerapex1 site
- Makiyamaia coreanica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Buccinaria, 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- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits5
- Skwarko, 19941
- Early Pleistocene gastropods from Timor1
Each of the 7 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 Buccinaria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Buccinaria 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, “Buccinaria”
- 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 itRaphitomidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kittl 1887