Elimia trigemmata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElimiaPBDB
- 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 5.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
4 occurrences of Elimia trigemmata on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
4 formations
- Porters Creek Formation1
- Potrerillos Formation · Difunta Group1
- Nanafalia Formation · Wilcox Group1
- Hatchetigbee Formation · Wilcox Group1
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The named rock units Elimia trigemmata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elimia trigemmata and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Elimia trigemmata and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
134 taxa- Architectonica3 sites
- Caricella3 sites
- Turritella3 sites
- Venericardia3 sites
- Agaronia2 sites
- Bornia2 sites
- Cadulus2 sites
- Calorhadia (Calorhadia) pharcida2 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Cuneocorbula subengonata2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
- Diplodonta2 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)2 sites
- Laevibuccinum2 sites
- Levifusus2 sites
- Mesalia alabamiensis2 sites
- Natica2 sites
- Orthosurcula2 sites
- Pitar2 sites
- Pseudoliva2 sites
- Scaphella2 sites
- Sullivania2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Elimia trigemmata, 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- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region2
- On some Paleocene invertebrates from the Potrerillos Formation (Difunta Group), northeastern Mexico1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
Each of the 4 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 trigemmata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Elimia trigemmata 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itElimia through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1860