Bulbifusus californicus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MazzalinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Bulbifusus californicus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Bulbifusus californicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Bulbifusus californicus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Bulbifusus californicus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Brachysphingus mammilatus4 sites
- Pseudocardium meganosensis4 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis3 sites
- Dentalium cooperi3 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) major meganosensis3 sites
- Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana meganosensis3 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum3 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) nuciformis3 sites
- Polinices hornii3 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus3 sites
- Acteon2 sites
- Bonellitia (Admetula) paucivaricata2 sites
- Crassatella meganosensis2 sites
- Dosiniopsis stewartvillensis2 sites
- Drillia hartleyensis2 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus)2 sites
- Martesia meganosensis2 sites
- Miltha (Miltha) meganosensis2 sites
- Molopophorus californicus2 sites
- Nucula gabbiana2 sites
- Pachecoa (Pachecoa) hornii elusa2 sites
- Pitaria californiana2 sites
- Pitaria conradi2 sites
- Solena (Plectosolen) parallelus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Bulbifusus californicus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Bulbifusus californicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bulbifusus californicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Bulbifusus californicus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itMazzalina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark and Woodford 1927