Paludomus

Paludomus is a genus of tropical freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Paludominae of the family Paludomidae.

Paludomus

MNHN - F. PRUGNAUD - 2022 · 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
PachychilidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Pachychilidae

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 4 of 6 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 6 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59.24 Mya11.63 Mya67 Mya4 Mya

6 occurrences of Paludomus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

6 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

4 formations

Woolwich and Reading — 51.52°N, 0.08°WBlackheath Beds — 51.43°N, 0.15°ELower Sangkulirang Marl — 0.81°N, 117.85°ESilantek — 0.88°N, 111.98°E

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The named rock units Paludomus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paludomus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Paludomus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

143 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paludomus, 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

4 references

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Paludomus

Credit
MNHN - F. PRUGNAUD - 2022
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paludomus 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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What may have been alongside itPachychilidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1910