Pleuroceridae

Pleuroceridae, common name pleurocerids, is a family of small to medium-sized freshwater snails, aquatic gilled gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Cerithioidea.

Pleuroceridae

Dick Biggins, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · 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
CerithioideaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 121 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 53 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 11 of 53 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 53 occurrencesEocene — about 26 of 53 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 53 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 4 of 53 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 53 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 53 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences124–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–77 Mya — about 2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–56 Mya — about 3 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 9 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 4 occurrences47–43 Mya — about 4 occurrences43–38 Mya — about 5 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–30 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences30–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–8.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.6–4.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.3–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences121.4 Mya11.7 ka128 Mya0 Mya

53 occurrences of Pleuroceridae 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

53 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

27 formations

Willwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WWillwood — 44.01°N, 108.52°WMarkley — 38.47°N, 122.04°WCowlitz — 46.40°N, 122.96°WWasatch — 41.15°N, 108.84°WKuwajima — 36.17°N, 136.63°EJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WHatchetigbee — 31.94°N, 88.06°WCastilletes — 11.95°N, 71.33°WBridger — 41.51°N, 110.14°WChorrillo — 50.51°S, 72.56°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WFleming — 31.00°N, 93.67°WTwo Medicine — 48.63°N, 113.75°WPotrerillos — 26.05°N, 100.83°WSilverado — 33.79°N, 117.72°WSooke — 48.38°N, 123.90°WNanafalia — 31.82°N, 86.62°WHell Creek — 46.24°N, 107.38°WWahweap — 37.60°N, 111.60°WWind River — 43.31°N, 107.43°WScripps — 32.83°N, 117.12°WBlakeley — 47.10°N, 122.00°WSiesta — 37.87°N, 122.20°WWheatland — 39.07°N, 121.36°W

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The named rock units Pleuroceridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleuroceridae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pleuroceridae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

698 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Pleuroceridae, 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

32 references

Each of the 53 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. 20 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 Pleuroceridae

Credit
Dick Biggins, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pleuroceridae 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 itCerithioidea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thiele 1929