Burnupia edwardiana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BurnupiaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Planorbidae
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Burnupia edwardiana 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene50%
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.
Burnupia edwardiana and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Burnupia edwardiana and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
93 taxa- Alcelaphini2 sites
- Bellamya unicolor2 sites
- Biomphalaria choanomphala2 sites
- Bovidae2 sites
- Ceratophallus apertus2 sites
- Ceratophallus faini2 sites
- Ceratophallus kigeziensis2 sites
- Cleopatra bulimoides2 sites
- Coelatura acuminata2 sites
- Coelatura bakeri2 sites
- Corbicula consobrina2 sites
- Damaliscus lunatus2 sites
- Gabbiella humerosa2 sites
- Gabbiella senaariensis2 sites
- Gyraulus costulatus2 sites
- Hippopotamus amphibius2 sites
- Kobus ellipsiprymnus2 sites
- Melanoides tuberculata2 sites
- Pelorovis antiquus2 sites
- Phacochoerus aethiopicus2 sites
- Pila ovata2 sites
- Pisidium victoriae2 sites
- Potamochoerus porcus2 sites
- Redunca redunca2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Burnupia edwardiana, 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 2 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
Media content1

Picture of Burnupia edwardiana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Burnupia edwardiana 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 itBurnupia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pilsbry and Bequaert 1927