Eulimastoma
Eulimastoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OdostomiinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pyramidellidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 7.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.
24 occurrences of Eulimastoma on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
24 occurrences- Miocene21%
- Pliocene46%
- Pleistocene8%
- Holocene25%
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
12 formations
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group5
- Rio Banano Formation · Limon Group4
- New Orleans Barrier Trend Formation2
- Gatun Formation2
- Shark Hole Point Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
- Moin Formation · Limon Group1
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The named rock units Eulimastoma 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.
Eulimastoma and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Eulimastoma and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
252 taxa- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa3 sites
- Dentalium3 sites
- Mulinia lateralis3 sites
- Nassarius (Nassarius) acutus3 sites
- Nuculana acuta3 sites
- Odostomia3 sites
- Abra aequalis2 sites
- Acteocina canaliculata2 sites
- Aligena texasiana2 sites
- Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana2 sites
- Angulus texanus2 sites
- Anodontia alba2 sites
- Anomalocardia cuneimeris2 sites
- Anomia simplex2 sites
- Arcinella cornuta2 sites
- Argopecten gibbus2 sites
- Astyris lunata2 sites
- Atrina serrata2 sites
- Balcis2 sites
- Bittiolum varium2 sites
- Boonea impressa2 sites
- Boonea seminuda2 sites
- Brachidontes exustus2 sites
- Busycon spiratum plagosum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Eulimastoma, 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
6 references- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama15
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel2
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel2
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary sediments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana2
- Stratigraphy of newly exposed Quaternary seduments, eastern Orleans Parish, Louisiana2
- Neogene and Quaternary geology of a stratigraphic test hole on Horn Island, Mississippi Sound1
Each of the 24 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 Eulimastoma
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Marie HENNION
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eulimastoma 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Eulimastoma”
- 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 itOdostomiinae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bartsch 1916