Buccinum undatum

Buccinum undatum, the common whelk or the waved buccinum, is a large, edible marine gastropod in the family Buccinidae, the "true whelks".

Buccinum undatum

Hans Hillewaert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
BuccinumPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesPliocene — about 9 of 50 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 31 of 50 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 10 of 50 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.3–3.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.1–2.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.9–2.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.7–2.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.3–2.1 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.1–1.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.9–1.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.8–1.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.6–1.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.4–1.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences1.2–972 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences972 ka–778 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 1.0 occurrences194 ka–0 Mya — about 31 occurrences3.6 Mya11.7 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

50 occurrences of Buccinum undatum 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

50 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

9 formations

Presumpscot — 43.84°N, 70.10°WPresumpscot — 44.10°N, 70.21°WPresumpscot — 43.50°N, 70.44°WPresumpscot — 43.91°N, 69.97°WPresumpscot — 44.13°N, 68.87°WRed Crag — 52.03°N, 1.32°ERed Crag — 52.10°N, 1.45°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ERed Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°EKap Kobenhavn — 82.38°N, 21.00°WKap Kobenhavn — 82.54°N, 20.50°WWexford Gravels — 52.43°N, 6.33°WLillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°EAcredale — 36.79°N, 76.17°WCoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°EHolderness — 54.10°N, 0.21°WOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°E

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The named rock units Buccinum undatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Buccinum undatum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Buccinum undatum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

724 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Buccinum undatum, 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

19 references

Each of the 50 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. 7 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Buccinum undatum

Credit
Hans Hillewaert
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itBuccinum through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)