Limacinidae

The Limacinidae are a family of small sea snails, pteropods, pelagic marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Thecosomata.

Limacinidae

Photo by Russ Hopcroft, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. · 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
ThecosomataPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
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 252 occurrencesEocene — about 69 of 252 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 33 of 252 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 116 of 252 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 27 of 252 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 252 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 6 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 13 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 13 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 13 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 11 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 3 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 5 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 5 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 7 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 7 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 11 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 16 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 18 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 17 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 17 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 16 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 7 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 20 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

252 occurrences of Limacinidae 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

252 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

42 formations

Marnes de Gan — 43.23°N, 0.40°WMarnes de Gan — 43.22°N, 0.35°WReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WReklaw — 30.80°N, 96.72°WKishima — 33.37°N, 129.93°ECercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.52°N, 71.28°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.58°N, 71.04°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WEscudo de Veraguas — 9.10°N, 81.58°WBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EBerchem — 51.29°N, 4.27°EHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.93°N, 87.75°WGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EFalun de Sainte-Avit — 43.91°N, 0.66°WFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WFalun de Saucats — 43.73°N, 1.03°WFalun de St. Paul-les-Dax — 43.75°N, 1.09°WLillo — 51.27°N, 4.30°EGhazij — 30.42°N, 70.51°EMonte Vaticano — 41.90°N, 12.45°ELondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WYazoo — 32.47°N, 90.29°WSelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°W

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The named rock units Limacinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 118 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Limacinidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Limacinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,085 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 96 sites for Limacinidae, 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

39 references

Each of the 252 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. 27 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 Limacinidae

Credit
Photo by Russ Hopcroft, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Licence
Public Domain
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. Blainville 1823