Pomacea

Pomacea is a genus of freshwater snails with gills and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails. The genus is native to the Americas; most species in this genus are restricted to South America.

Pomacea

Stijn Ghesquiere · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 8 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 8 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences66 Mya129 ka74 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Pomacea 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

8 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

2 formations

Fort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WChorrillo — 50.51°S, 72.56°W

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The named rock units Pomacea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pomacea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Pomacea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pomacea, 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

3 references

Each of the 8 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 content2

Picture of Pomacea

Credit
Stijn Ghesquiere
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAmpullariidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perry 1811