Elimia

Elimia is a genus of freshwater snails in the family Pleuroceridae. Species of the genus are aquatic gastropod mollusks that have an operculum. Various species are found in creeks throughout much of the eastern and central United States and the Great Lakes region of Canada. Fossils have been found across the whole of the North American continent, including from the Paleocene of Mexico and the Eocene of California. They were formerly included in the genus Goniobasis, together with the western Juga species.

Elimia

USGS · 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
PleuroceridaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Pleuroceridae

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 14 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 3 of 14 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 7 of 14 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–55 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–34 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences3.1–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence85.7 Mya11.7 ka92 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Elimia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

14 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

7 formations

Markley — 38.47°N, 122.04°WHatchetigbee — 31.94°N, 88.06°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.45°WPotrerillos — 26.05°N, 100.83°WNanafalia — 31.82°N, 86.62°WWheatland — 39.07°N, 121.36°WLincoln Creek — 47.66°N, 122.96°W

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The named rock units Elimia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Elimia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Elimia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

348 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Elimia, 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

9 references

Each of the 14 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 Elimia

Credit
USGS
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Elimia 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

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 itPleuroceridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams and Adams 1858