Bursa corrugata
Alanbeuella corrugata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bursidae, the frog shells.

Jan Delsing · Public Domain · 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
- BursaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Bursidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Bursidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Bursidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
8 occurrences of Bursa corrugata 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
8 occurrences- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene63%
- Holocene13%
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
4 formations
- Shinzato Formation · Shimajiri Group2
- Agueguexquite Formation2
- Waimanalo Formation1
- Tortuga Formation1
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The named rock units Bursa corrugata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Bursa corrugata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Bursa corrugata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Aloconatica niasensis2 sites
- Biplex2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Gemmula2 sites
- Alatotrochus rubescens1 site
- Amalda (Baryspira)1 site
- Ancilla (Turrancilla)1 site
- Cheilea1 site
- Cominella (Cominella)1 site
- Conus (Lithoconus) litteratus1 site
- Cythara (Mangelia)1 site
- Dolichozygus stearnsi1 site
- Ficus1 site
- Hindsia (Nihonophos)1 site
- Hipponix (Malluvium)1 site
- Hirtomurex1 site
- Jolonica macneili1 site
- Laqueus elongatus1 site
- Lioglyphostoma1 site
- Lischkeia1 site
- Lyria1 site
- Makiyamaia coreanica okinavensis1 site
- Mammilla melanostoma1 site
- Mitrella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Bursa corrugata, 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
4 references- Neogene Tonnoidean Gastropods of Tropical and South America; contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and Uplift of the Central American Isthmus4
- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits2
- Fossil mollusks of Oahu, Hawaii Islands1
- The marine Quaternary of the Canary Islands1
Each of the 8 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. 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 Bursa corrugata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Bursa corrugata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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 itBursa through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Perry 1811)