Pleurodonte

Pleurodonte

D. G. Robinson, A. Hovestadt, A. Fields & A. S. H. Breure · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
CamaenidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 39.7 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 5 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 22 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 22 occurrencesMiocene40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences37 Mya12.8 Mya40.3 Mya11.1 Mya

22 occurrences of Pleurodonte on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

22 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

3 formations

Arcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 29.25°N, 82.17°WArcadia — 30.48°N, 84.02°WArcadia — 30.21°N, 84.30°WArcadia — 30.49°N, 85.17°WGrand Bay — 12.48°N, 61.42°WChambers Tuff — 29.90°N, 104.20°W

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The named rock units Pleurodonte 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.

Pleurodonte and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pleurodonte and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

305 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Pleurodonte, 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

Each of the 22 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 Pleurodonte

Credit
D. G. Robinson, A. Hovestadt, A. Fields & A. S. H. Breure
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pleurodonte 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itCamaenidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer and Waldheim 1807