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Description

Bullata is a genus of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullata, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	5193310	https://www.gbif.org/species/5193310
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11155	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11155

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Marginellidae : Bullata

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Cystiscidae : Bullata

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Cystiscidae	Stimpson 1865
genus	Bullata	Jousseaume 1875

Scientific Name

Bullata Jousseaume, 1875

Name Published In

Rev. Mag. Zool., (3) 3, 167

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Gibberulina	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Gibberulina	genus	belongs to Cystiscidae	stated without evidence	Rosenberg, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Cystiscidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Cystiscidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullata

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Bullata analuciae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bullata bullata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bullata guerrinii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bullata largillieri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bullata larvata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	41.3 Ma Eocene	41.3 Ma Eocene
Bullata lilacina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bullata matthewsi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bullata schilderi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bullata semen species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		68	56.0 Ma Paleocene	38.0 Ma Eocene
Closia castelli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Closia gamali species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Gibberulina Monterosato, 1884	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Marginellidae : *Gibberulina*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1884	Gibberulina Monterosato
2002	Gibberulina Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Gibberulina Rosenberg

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Rosenberg G. (2005) Malacolog 4.0: A database of Western Atlantic marine Mollusca, [WWW database (version 4.1.0)] URL http://data.acnatsci.org/wasp

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Rev. Mag. Zool., (3) 3, 167 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

de Souza P.J.S. & Coovert J.A. (2001). Revision of the Recent Bullata Jousseaume, 1875 (Gastropoda: Marginellidae) with the description of two new species. The Nautilus 115(1): 1-14. - via World Register of Marine Species

Cossignani T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

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!

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