Lymnaea palustris

Lymnaea palustris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LymnaeaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Lymnaeidae

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 8 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences4.9–3.3 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.3–1.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Lymnaea palustris on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

8 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

1 formation

Fluvio-marine Crag — 52.58°N, 1.38°E

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The named rock units Lymnaea palustris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lymnaea palustris and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lymnaea palustris and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

267 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Lymnaea palustris, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 Lymnaea palustris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lymnaea palustris was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLymnaea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Müller 1774)