Patellidae

Patellidae is a taxonomic family of true limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Patelloidea. (The superfamily Patelloidea should not be confused with the similar-sounding genus of true limpets Patelloida which is in the family Lottiidae within the superfamily Lottioidea, also part of the Patellogastropoda.)

Patellidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PatelloideaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 283 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 3 of 248 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 248 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 248 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 15 of 248 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 5 of 248 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 248 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 248 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 248 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 248 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 248 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 248 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 248 occurrencesMiocene — about 17 of 248 occurrencesPliocene — about 22 of 248 occurrencesPleistocene — about 124 of 248 occurrences296–286 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences286–276 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences266–256 Mya — about 2 occurrences256–247 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences247–237 Mya — about 6 occurrences237–227 Mya — about 13 occurrences227–217 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences217–207 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences207–197 Mya — about 1 occurrence197–187 Mya — about 1 occurrence187–178 Mya — about 2 occurrences178–168 Mya — about 2 occurrences168–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–148 Mya — about 4 occurrences148–138 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences138–128 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences128–118 Mya — about 4 occurrences118–108 Mya — about 5 occurrences108–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–89 Mya — about 1 occurrence89–79 Mya — about 4 occurrences79–69 Mya — about 5 occurrences69–59 Mya — about 9 occurrences59–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–39 Mya — about 6 occurrences39–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–9.9 Mya — about 12 occurrences9.9–0 Mya — about 155 occurrences283.3 Mya11.7 ka296 Mya0 Mya

248 occurrences of Patellidae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

248 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

45 formations

Fels — 48.50°N, 15.76°ECassian — 46.57°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°EBredasdorp — 33.88°S, 18.45°EAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.05°WAgatdal — 70.60°N, 53.10°WKrasnoyarka — 48.68°N, 142.66°EKrasnoyarka — 47.37°N, 142.50°EVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°EHosselkus — 40.93°N, 122.13°WHosselkus — 40.78°N, 122.22°WLellinge Greensand — 55.71°N, 12.60°ETamala Limestone — 32.04°S, 115.76°EAhlen — 51.80°N, 7.95°EHiraiga — 39.82°N, 141.99°EHiraiga — 39.82°N, 141.88°EMarmolata — 46.46°N, 11.85°EWeiyuanjiang — 23.93°N, 101.43°ETermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°ECephalopod Limestone — 10.30°S, 123.71°ECephalopod Limestone — 9.83°S, 124.57°EMungo River — 4.53°N, 9.51°ECabrillo — 32.68°N, 117.24°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WCalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EBabica Beds — 49.92°N, 21.90°ECalcaire de Caen — 48.97°N, 0.13°WPoint Allen — 36.00°S, 137.17°EApostoli — 35.25°N, 24.58°E

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The named rock units Patellidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 173 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Patellidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Patellidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,773 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 105 sites for Patellidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

96 references

Each of the 248 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. 84 further references are not listed. 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

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Picture of Patellidae

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No 3D scan of Patellidae 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1815