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Eobucania ✝
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Rank | genus (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Bellerophontida : Tropidodiscidae : Eobucania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Opinions (PBDB) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 485 - 478 Ma Paleozoic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 467 - 458 Ma Middle Ordovician | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | slow-moving (based on Bellerophontida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vision | limited (based on Gastropoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | detritivore (based on Bellerophontida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taphonomy | aragonite, low Mg calcite (based on Bellerophontida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Primary Reference (PBDB) | T. Kobayashi. 1955. The Ordovician fossils from the McKay group in British Columbia, western Canada, with a note on the early Ordovician palaeogeography. Journal of the Faculty of Science, the Imperial University of Tokyo, Section 2 9(3):355-492 |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Eobucania bohemica ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 1 | 467 Ma Middle Ordovician | 467 Ma Middle Ordovician | |
Eobucania mexicana ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 2 | 485 Ma Cambrian | 485 Ma Cambrian | |
Eobucania palinurus ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 1 | 485 Ma Cambrian | 485 Ma Cambrian | |
Eobucania pulchra ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 2 | 485 Ma Cambrian | 485 Ma Cambrian | |
Eobucania subovatus ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 1 | 485 Ma Cambrian | 485 Ma Cambrian |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1955 | Eobucania Kobayashi |
1960 | Eobucania Knight et al. p. 179 |
1992 | Eobucania Wahlman |
2002 | Eobucania Sepkoski, Jr. |
2020 | Eobucania Wagner p. G618 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!