Diodora patagonica
Diodora patagonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.

Jan Delsing . Original uploader was JoJan at en.wikipedia · 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
- DiodoraPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, carnivorePBDB, for Diodora
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Diodora
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Diodora
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 117 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 129 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 774 ka to 0 Mya.
6 occurrences of Diodora patagonica 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
6 occurrences- Pleistocene67%
- Holocene33%
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 Diodora patagonica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Diodora patagonica and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Diodora patagonica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Abra lioica1 site
- Adelomelon ancilla1 site
- Adrana electa1 site
- Agathistoma patagonicum1 site
- Amiantis purpuratus1 site
- Anachis isabellei1 site
- Anachis paessleri1 site
- Anomalocardia brasiliana1 site
- Ataxocerithium pullum1 site
- Barnea lamellosa1 site
- Bostrycapulus aculeatus1 site
- Brachiodontes rodriguezi1 site
- Buccinanops deformis1 site
- Buccinanops globulosum1 site
- Buccinanops gradatum1 site
- Buccinanops lamarckii1 site
- Bushia rushi1 site
- Caecum achironum1 site
- Caecum antillarum1 site
- Calliostoma carcellesi1 site
- Calliostoma coppingeri1 site
- Calliostoma nordenskjoldi1 site
- Carditamera plata1 site
- Cochliolepis surensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Diodora patagonica, 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
4 references- Taphonomy of the Late Pleistocene marine molluscan assemblages from Uruguay2
- Paleontologia de los sedimentos marinos holocenos de los alrededores de Bahia Blanca, Provincia de Buenos Aires2
- A middle Pleistocene marine molluscan assemblage from the Southern coastal plain of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil1
- New fossil records of Pleistocene Marine mollusks in Southern Brazil1
Each of the 6 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 Diodora patagonica
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing . Original uploader was JoJan at en.wikipedia
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Diodora patagonica 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 itDiodora through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (dOrbigny 1839)