Bulla striata

Bulla striata, commonly known as the common Atlantic bubble or striate bubble, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Bullidae, the bubble snails.

Bulla striata

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
BullaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Bullidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Bullidae
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Bulla
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 9 of 70 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 12 of 70 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 47 of 70 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences7.7–7.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.0–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–4.9 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.9–4.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.1–1.4 Mya — about 9 occurrences1.4–698 ka Mya — about 9 occurrences698 ka–0 Mya — about 25 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka20.9 Mya0 Mya

70 occurrences of Bulla striata 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

70 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

16 formations

Caloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.76°N, 81.46°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.17°WCaloosahatchee — 26.75°N, 80.93°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WFort Thompson — 26.89°N, 82.01°WFort Thompson — 27.72°N, 82.43°WFort Thompson — 26.79°N, 81.30°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WWare — 11.85°N, 71.32°WWare — 11.96°N, 71.28°WBelmont — 32.33°N, 64.69°WBelmont — 32.36°N, 64.71°WGrotto Beach — 24.03°N, 74.52°WIronshore — 19.33°N, 81.25°WBermont — 26.89°N, 82.01°WBermont — 27.72°N, 82.43°WAnastasia — 26.93°N, 80.09°WFalmouth — 18.47°N, 77.45°WGuaiguaza Clay — 10.00°N, 68.00°WAbisinia — 10.00°N, 63.00°WMount Hope — 9.33°N, 79.90°WImperial — 32.83°N, 116.04°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°W

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The named rock units Bulla striata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Bulla striata and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Bulla striata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Bulla striata, 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

26 references

Each of the 70 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. 14 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 Bulla striata

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itBulla through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bruguiére 1792)