Bufonaria

Bufonaria is a genus of medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Bursidae, the "frog snails".

Bufonaria

Roberto Verzo from Bad Voeslau / Lower Austria, Austria · CC BY 2.0 · 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
BursidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Bursidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Bursidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Bursidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 25 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 25 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 25 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 8 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences37.71 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

25 occurrences of Bufonaria 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

25 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

5 formations

Toukoshan — 24.47°N, 120.72°EMekran — 25.33°N, 63.33°EMekran — 25.21°N, 64.64°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.37°S, 111.32°ENyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°ENakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°E

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The named rock units Bufonaria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bufonaria and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bufonaria and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

529 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Bufonaria, 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

13 references

Each of the 25 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. 1 further reference is 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 Bufonaria

Credit
Roberto Verzo from Bad Voeslau / Lower Austria, Austria
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

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 itBursidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Schumacher 1817)