Pulmonata

Pulmonata or pulmonates is an informal group of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includes many land and freshwater families, and several marine families.

Pulmonata

Ghost_Slug_adult.jpg : ©Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales derivative work: Anna Frodesiak ( talk ) · 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
Also called
pulmonatePBDB
Sits inside
GastropodaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 330 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 40 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 40 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 40 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 40 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 40 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 40 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 40 occurrencesMiocene — about 18 of 40 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 40 occurrencesPleistocene — about 9 of 40 occurrences343–331 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences331–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–137 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences137–126 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences126–114 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences103–91 Mya — about 3 occurrences57–46 Mya — about 4 occurrences46–34 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–23 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–11 Mya — about 14 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 15 occurrences330.3 Mya11.7 ka343 Mya0 Mya

40 occurrences of Pulmonata on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

40 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

11 formations

Griman Creek — 29.45°S, 147.78°EGriman Creek — 29.45°S, 147.76°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°ERandeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°EWillwood — 44.30°N, 109.00°WSappa — 39.80°N, 98.10°WBlesa — 40.95°N, 0.77°WEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°ESantiago — 33.19°N, 117.32°WScremerston Coal — 54.73°N, 1.98°WDeep River — 46.63°N, 111.06°WOber Süßwassermolasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°E

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The named rock units Pulmonata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pulmonata and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pulmonata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,154 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Pulmonata, 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

28 references

Each of the 40 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. 16 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 Pulmonata

Credit
Ghost_Slug_adult.jpg : ©Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales derivative work: Anna Frodesiak ( talk )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pulmonata was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cuvier 1817