Eulimidae

Eulimidae is a family of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Vanikoroidea.

Eulimidae

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
VanikoroideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
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 2 of 1039 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 1039 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1039 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1039 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1039 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 1039 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 65 of 1039 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 29 of 1039 occurrencesEocene — about 231 of 1039 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 25 of 1039 occurrencesMiocene — about 344 of 1039 occurrencesPliocene — about 136 of 1039 occurrencesPleistocene — about 181 of 1039 occurrences246–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–230 Mya — about 1 occurrence140–131 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 2 occurrences82–74 Mya — about 11 occurrences74–66 Mya — about 51 occurrences66–57 Mya — about 26 occurrences57–49 Mya — about 27 occurrences49–41 Mya — about 46 occurrences41–33 Mya — about 162 occurrences33–25 Mya — about 20 occurrences25–16 Mya — about 49 occurrences16–8.2 Mya — about 257 occurrences8.2–0 Mya — about 376 occurrences237 Mya11.7 ka246 Mya0 Mya

1,039 occurrences of Eulimidae 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

1,039 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

184 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.04°N, 88.73°WCook Mountain — 32.35°N, 92.72°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.49°N, 93.47°WCook Mountain — 31.76°N, 92.96°WCook Mountain — 32.14°N, 89.00°WCook Mountain — 31.03°N, 95.63°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°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°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WCook Mountain — 29.99°N, 97.09°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.80°N, 118.16°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.43°N, 118.83°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.45°N, 118.80°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 32.95°N, 90.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.33°N, 90.15°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.68°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WLisbon — 31.76°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCaloosahatchee — 26.89°N, 82.01°WCaloosahatchee — 27.77°N, 82.68°WCaloosahatchee — 26.96°N, 81.99°WReinbek Stuffe — 51.77°N, 6.62°EGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 88.06°WGosport Sand — 31.55°N, 87.91°WKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°ESelsey — 51.02°N, 1.32°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WYorktown — 35.51°N, 77.62°WYorktown — 37.10°N, 76.39°WYorktown — 37.23°N, 76.51°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 84.97°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WJames City — 35.28°N, 76.65°WJames City — 35.04°N, 76.99°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.09°N, 81.55°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.57°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WOlcese — 35.47°N, 118.91°WOlcese — 35.44°N, 118.88°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°W

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The named rock units Eulimidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 160 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 211 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eulimidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Eulimidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,494 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 440 sites for Eulimidae, and this reads 240 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

227 references

Each of the 1,039 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. 215 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 Eulimidae

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

No 3D scan of Eulimidae 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. Philippi 1853