Buchia elderensis
No picture of Buchia elderensis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Buchia elderensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BuchiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Buchia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buchia
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Buchiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Pectinida
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 132.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Buchia elderensis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
11 occurrencesThese 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.
Buchia elderensis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Buchia elderensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Buchia piochii4 sites
- Ammonitida1 site
- Ammonoidea indet.1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Buchia mosquensis1 site
- Buchia pacifica1 site
- Cylindroteuthis1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Kossmatia dilleri1 site
- Nuculana1 site
- Parvamussium1 site
- Phylloceras contrarium1 site
- Scaphopoda1 site
- Scleractinia1 site
- Serpulidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Buchia elderensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Structural and stratigraphic significance of the Buchia zones in the Colyear Springs-Paskenta Area, California6
- Map and checklists of Jurassic and Cretaceous macrofossil localities within the San Jose 1:100,000 Quadrangle, California, and discussion of paleontological results4
- Knoxville series in the California Mesozoic1
Each of the 11 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Buchia elderensis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Buchia elderensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBuchia through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anderson 1945)