Helminthoglypta tudiculata
Helminthoglypta tudiculata, common names the southern California shoulderband or southern shoulderband, is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helminthoglyptidae.

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Time the record covers
At most 196 thousand years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 210 ka and 14 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Helminthoglypta tudiculata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Helminthoglypta tudiculata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Helminthoglypta tudiculata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Anaxyrus boreas1 site
- Aneides lugubris1 site
- Anniella pulchra1 site
- Anura1 site
- Ariolimax1 site
- Batrachoseps1 site
- Bufo1 site
- Callipepla californica1 site
- cf. Pseudacris regilla1 site
- Colubridae1 site
- Cottus cf. asper1 site
- Diadophis punctatus1 site
- Dipodomys cf. agilus1 site
- Elgaria multicarinata1 site
- Emys marmorata1 site
- Ensatina1 site
- Fossaria parva1 site
- Gasterosteus aculeatus1 site
- Gila cf. orcuttii1 site
- Gyraulus parvus1 site
- Hylidae1 site
- Lacertilia1 site
- Lampropeltis getulus1 site
- Masticophis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Helminthoglypta tudiculata, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Helminthoglypta tudiculata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- (c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Helminthoglypta tudiculata 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.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.