Bulimulidae

Bulimulidae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized to large, air-breathing, tropical and sub-tropical land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Orthalicoidea.

Bulimulidae

Ana Carolina Díaz · CC BY 2.5 · 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
OrthalicoideaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 11 of 27 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 27 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 5 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence66 Mya129 ka85 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Bulimulidae on record. 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

27 occurrences

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

6 formations

Arcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 30.48°N, 84.02°WArcadia — 30.24°N, 84.23°WChorrillo — 50.51°S, 72.56°WQueguay — 31.92°S, 57.91°WQueguay — 33.53°S, 56.88°WQueguay — 32.37°S, 57.61°WQueguay — 32.48°S, 57.41°WBridger — 42.42°N, 109.35°WBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WBridger — 42.70°N, 110.10°WShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WGreen River — 42.70°N, 110.10°W

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The named rock units Bulimulidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

485 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Bulimulidae, 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

10 references

Each of the 27 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 Bulimulidae

Credit
Ana Carolina Díaz
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Bulimulidae 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 itOrthalicoidea through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tryon 1867