Pedipes
Pedipes is a genus of small air-breathing snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Pedipedinae of the family Ellobiidae.
Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · 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
- EllobiidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Ellobiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ellobiidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ellobiidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Pedipes 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
7 occurrences- Pliocene14%
- Pleistocene86%
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
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The named rock units Pedipes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pedipes and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pedipes and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
226 taxa- Alaba supralirata2 sites
- Alvania2 sites
- Anomia peruviana2 sites
- Arcopsis solida2 sites
- Argopecten ventricosus2 sites
- Atilia2 sites
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) reeveana2 sites
- Bulla punctulata2 sites
- Cerithiopsis2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
- Chione undatella2 sites
- Chrysallida2 sites
- Ctena galapagana2 sites
- Cythara (Mangelia)2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
- Engina2 sites
- Hipponix2 sites
- Mangelia hancocki2 sites
- Modulus2 sites
- Niveria (Niveria) pacifica2 sites
- Nodipecten magnificus2 sites
- Polinices uber2 sites
- Pseudozonaria nigropunctata2 sites
- Pyrene2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pedipes, 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
5 references- Invertebrate megafossils of Pleistocene (Sangamon Interglacial) age from Isla de Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico2
- Pleistocene mollusks from Tecolote Creek, San Diego, California2
- Checklist of the Pleistocene marine molluscs of Prainha and Lagoinhas (Santa Maria Island, Azores)1
- Pliocene fossils from Baltra (South Seymour) Island, Galápagos Islands1
- Marine Pleistocene mollusks from the Galapagos Islands1
Each of the 7 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 Pedipes
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Manuel CABALLER
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pedipes 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, “Pedipes”
- 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 itEllobiidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Férussac 1820