Patelloida pustulata
Eoacmaea pustulata is a species of sea snail, a true limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Eoacmaeidae, one of the families of true limpets.

Jan Delsing · 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
- PatelloidaPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Lottiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lottiidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Lottiidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Patelloida pustulata 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
7 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
6 formations
- Grotto Beach Formation2
- Abisinia Formation1
- Bermont Formation1
- Mount Hope Formation1
- Falmouth Formation · Coastal Group1
- Ironshore Formation1
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The named rock units Patelloida pustulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Patelloida pustulata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Patelloida pustulata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
290 taxa- Abra aequalis2 sites
- Acar domingensis2 sites
- Americardia media2 sites
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa2 sites
- Angulus merus2 sites
- Angulus versicolor2 sites
- Anodontia alba2 sites
- Arcopagia fausta2 sites
- Arcopsis adamsi2 sites
- Argopecten gibbus2 sites
- Brachidontes exustus2 sites
- Cadulus2 sites
- Cardiomya costellata2 sites
- Caryocorbula caribaea2 sites
- Chione cancellata2 sites
- Clathrolucina costata2 sites
- Crassostrea virginica2 sites
- Ctena orbiculata2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Diodora cayenensis2 sites
- Eulima bifasciata2 sites
- Gouldia cerina2 sites
- Laevicardium serratum2 sites
- Lamarcka imbricata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Patelloida pustulata, 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- Stability of Late Pleistocene Reef Mollusks from San Salvador Island, Bahamas2
- The benthic mollusk faunas of two contrasting reef paleosubenvironments: Falmouth Formation (late Pleistocene, last interglacial), Jamaica1
- Distribution of Bivalves and Gastropod in the Pleistocene Ironshore Formation, Grand Cayman, British West Indies1
- Mollusca of the "Glades" unit in southern Florida: Part I Introduction and observations1
- Late Cenozoic gastropods from northern Venezuela1
- Two collections of Pleistocene fossils from the Isthmus of Panama1
Each of the 7 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 Patelloida pustulata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Patelloida pustulata 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 itPatelloida through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Helbling 1779)