Limacina pygmaea

Limacina pygmaea

Stichting Schepsel Schelp · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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 most 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Paleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 5 occurrencesEocene57–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–50 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56.5 Mya40.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Limacina pygmaea 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

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

Marnes de Gan — 43.23°N, 0.40°WMarnes de Gan — 43.22°N, 0.35°W

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The named rock units Limacina pygmaea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Limacina pygmaea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Limacina pygmaea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Limacina pygmaea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 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 content1

Picture of Limacina pygmaea

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Schepsel Schelp
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Limacina pygmaea 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.

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What may have been alongside itLimacina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1804)