Paludina

Paludina

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ViviparinaePBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Viviparidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Viviparidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Viviparidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Viviparidae

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 68 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 68 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 68 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 4 of 68 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 68 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 68 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 68 occurrencesEocene — about 52 of 68 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 68 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 68 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 68 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 68 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–140 Mya — about 3 occurrences140–133 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences133–126 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences126–119 Mya — about 3 occurrences119–112 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences112–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 1 occurrence70–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 37 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 14 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences201.4 Mya129 ka210 Mya0 Mya

68 occurrences of Paludina on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

68 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

15 formations

Headon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WHeadon Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WHeadon Beds — 50.63°N, 1.55°WBembridge Marls — 50.67°N, 1.08°WBembridge Marls — 50.75°N, 1.33°WBembridge Marls — 50.71°N, 1.45°WOsborne Beds — 50.67°N, 1.57°WOsborne Beds — 50.71°N, 1.10°WOsborne Beds — 50.70°N, 1.51°WBembridge Limestone — 50.68°N, 1.10°WHempstead — 50.72°N, 1.45°WIron Sands — 51.75°N, 1.18°WVectis — 50.62°N, 1.37°WLameta — 20.35°N, 79.05°ELameta — 23.17°N, 79.95°ECreechbarrow Limestone — 50.65°N, 2.12°Wos — 50.70°N, 1.51°WMarfim — 12.93°S, 38.51°WTrossingen — 51.90°N, 11.07°ETakli — 21.15°N, 79.10°ETurga — 50.83°N, 116.19°EBibai — 43.50°N, 142.00°E

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The named rock units Paludina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paludina and its relatives

Eocene

Where Paludina and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

343 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Paludina, 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

18 references

Each of the 68 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. 6 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 Paludina

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Paludina was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itViviparinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Férussac 1812