Pila

Pila is a genus of large freshwater snails with an operculum, African and Asian apple snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

Pila

0x16w · CC BY-SA 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
AmpullariidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Ampullariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ampullariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ampullariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Ampullariidae

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 27 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 27 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

27 occurrences of Pila on record. 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

27 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

7 formations

Ashawq — 17.00°N, 54.00°ENubia — 16.25°N, 33.75°ENyakabingo — 1.00°N, 30.50°EMaboko — 0.15°N, 34.62°ELothidok — 3.33°N, 35.75°EZalumah — 17.42°N, 54.00°EVihowa — 30.08°N, 70.33°E

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The named rock units Pila has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

313 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Pila, 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

14 references

Each of the 27 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. 2 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 Pila

Credit
0x16w
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pila 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 itAmpullariidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798