Eulimella

Eulimella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

Eulimella

Peñas A. & Rolán E. · CC BY 4.0 · 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
PyramidellidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 96 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 96 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 96 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 49 of 96 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 96 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 96 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 4 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 11 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 16 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

96 occurrences of Eulimella 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

96 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

29 formations

Escudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WMonte Giogo — 44.85°N, 9.86°ESpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WGniew — 53.85°N, 19.17°EVistula — 53.94°N, 19.33°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 170.02°ERifle Butts — 45.12°S, 170.93°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WPakaurangi — 36.22°S, 174.28°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.41°N, 90.84°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WPlaya Grande — 10.00°N, 64.00°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WShark Hole Point — 9.04°N, 81.75°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.65°WFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°WFels — 48.50°N, 15.76°ERio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.07°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°E

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The named rock units Eulimella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eulimella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Eulimella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,396 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Eulimella, 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

27 references

Each of the 96 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. 15 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 Eulimella

Credit
Peñas A. & Rolán E.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Forbes and MacAndrew 1846