Limacina bulimoides

Limacina bulimoides is a species of gastropods belonging to the family Limacinidae.

Limacina bulimoides

D'Orbigny, 1834 · CC0 · 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
LimacinaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Limacinidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Limacinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Limacinidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 5 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.2–3.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.5–2.8 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.8–2.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20.45 Mya5.333 Mya23.5 Mya2.1 Mya

5 occurrences of Limacina bulimoides on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

5 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

1 formation

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°W

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The named rock units Limacina bulimoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Limacina bulimoides and its relatives

Miocene

Where Limacina bulimoides and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

55 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Limacina bulimoides, 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

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Limacina bulimoides

Credit
D'Orbigny, 1834
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Limacina bulimoides · RMNH:MOL:347363

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 itLimacina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Orbigny 1836)