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Buccinum sp.

genus Buccinum Linnaeus, 1758

• Modern species: Late Jurassic - Present (150.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Gastropoda, order Neogastropoda, family Buccinidae

• Distribution
• Oligocene: Nagano
• Oligocene-Miocene: Nagano
• Miocene: Fukushima, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Mie
• Miocene-Pliocene: Hokkaido, Nagano
• Pliocene: Hokkaido, Aomori, Niigata
• Pleistocene: Chiba
• Investigation in progress: Nagano

• Subtaxa
• B. glaciale
• B. leucostoma, Yellow-mouth buccinum
• B. middendorfii, Middendorf's whelk
• B. ochotense
• B. schantaricum
• B. sinanoense