Cleopatra bulimoides
Cleopatra bulimoides is a species of freshwater snails with an operculum, aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Paludomidae.

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 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
- CleopatraPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Paludomidae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Cleopatra bulimoides on record, most of them in the Holocene. 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
5 occurrences- Pleistocene40%
- Holocene60%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cleopatra bulimoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cleopatra bulimoides and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Cleopatra bulimoides and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
150 taxa- Bellamya unicolor4 sites
- Corbicula consobrina4 sites
- Hippopotamus amphibius4 sites
- Phacochoerus aethiopicus4 sites
- Alcelaphini3 sites
- Bulinus truncatus3 sites
- Clarias3 sites
- Etheria elliptica3 sites
- Gabbiella senaariensis3 sites
- Hippotragus equinus3 sites
- Kobus ellipsiprymnus3 sites
- Lates niloticus3 sites
- Melanoides tuberculata3 sites
- Ourebia ourebi3 sites
- Panthera leo3 sites
- Plectropterus gambensis3 sites
- Redunca redunca3 sites
- Rhinocerotidae3 sites
- Synodontis3 sites
- Biomphalaria choanomphala2 sites
- Bovidae2 sites
- Burnupia edwardiana2 sites
- Canis aureus2 sites
- Ceratophallus apertus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cleopatra bulimoides, 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- Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers at Ishango (eastern Zaire): the faunal evidence2
- A revision of the faunal remains from two central Sudanese sites: Khartoum Hospital and Esh Shaheinab2
- Tawadros, 20011
Each of the 5 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 Cleopatra bulimoides
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel CABALLER
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cleopatra bulimoides was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCleopatra through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Olivier 1804)