Eulima

Eulima is a genus of small, ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Eulimidae.

Eulima

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
EulimidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Eulimidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Eulimidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Eulimidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 0 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 288 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 288 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 288 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 288 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 288 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 288 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 60 of 288 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 11 of 288 occurrencesEocene — about 66 of 288 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 288 occurrencesMiocene — about 91 of 288 occurrencesPliocene — about 31 of 288 occurrencesPleistocene — about 12 of 288 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 3 occurrences131–123 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences123–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–107 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–90 Mya — about 2 occurrences90–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–74 Mya — about 7 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 49 occurrences66–57 Mya — about 10 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 5 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 58 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–16 Mya — about 14 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 70 occurrences8.2–0 Mya — about 59 occurrences237 Mya11.7 ka246 Mya0 Mya

288 occurrences of Eulima on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

288 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

80 formations

Ripley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.09°N, 95.95°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.55°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WGatun — 9.36°N, 79.84°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WYorktown — 37.10°N, 76.39°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WDanian Limestone — 55.25°N, 12.13°ECoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WCoffee Sand — 34.45°N, 88.58°WBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°ECrockett — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCrockett — 30.67°N, 96.37°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WCorsicana Marl — 32.53°N, 96.27°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.45°WCorsicana Marl — 30.23°N, 97.52°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 88.06°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WPaksa — 73.00°N, 113.00°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WRed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ERed Crag — 51.85°N, 1.28°ECoralline Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°ECoralline Crag — 52.03°N, 1.38°EHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.94°N, 88.06°W

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The named rock units Eulima has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 56 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 69 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eulima and its relatives

Miocene

Where Eulima and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,862 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 187 sites for Eulima, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

80 references

Each of the 288 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. 68 further references are not listed. 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 Eulima

Credit
Jan Delsing
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eulima 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Risso 1826)