Parmacella

Parmacella is a genus of air-breathing land slugs, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Parmacellidae.

Parmacella

Valter Jacinto · 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
ParmacellidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 8.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 8.725 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 13 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.3–8.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.1–6.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.2–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–5.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.5–5.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.2–1.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.5–1.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences1.2–922 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences922 ka–615 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences615 ka–308 ka Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308 ka–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.2 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Parmacella on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

14 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

3 formations

facies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°ESanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°E

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The named rock units Parmacella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parmacella and its relatives

Miocene

Where Parmacella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

251 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Parmacella, 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

5 references

Each of the 14 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 Parmacella

Credit
Valter Jacinto
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parmacella 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.

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 itParmacellidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1804