Bulimus

Bulimus

Eric A. Lazo-Wasem · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
GastropodaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 29 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 29 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 29 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 29 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 29 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–9.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences48.07 Mya774 ka57 Mya0 Mya

29 occurrences of Bulimus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

29 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

6 formations

Bembridge Limestone — 50.68°N, 1.10°WBembridge Limestone — 50.67°N, 1.53°W"Caliza de Peguera" — 39.68°N, 2.83°EHeadon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WRed Crag — 52.10°N, 1.45°EChambi — 35.19°N, 8.65°ESarmiento — 42.90°S, 71.32°W

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The named rock units Bulimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bulimus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Bulimus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

476 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Bulimus, 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 29 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 content1

Picture of Bulimus

Credit
Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

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What may have been alongside itGastropoda through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bruguière 1792