Carychium

Carychium is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.

Carychium

Snailmail · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
CarychiidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Ellobioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ellobioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ellobioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 61 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 48 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 48 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 48 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 48 occurrencesMiocene — about 33 of 48 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 48 occurrencesPleistocene — about 11 of 48 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 9 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.2–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences61.66 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

48 occurrences of Carychium on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

48 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

12 formations

facies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EOber Süßwassermolasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EAfyon — 39.00°N, 31.00°EVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WSappa — 39.80°N, 98.10°WHolic — 48.81°N, 17.17°EShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WGrimmelfingen — 48.60°N, 10.72°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°E

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The named rock units Carychium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carychium and its relatives

Miocene

Where Carychium and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,067 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Carychium, 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

26 references

Each of the 48 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. 14 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

Media content1

Picture of Carychium

Credit
Snailmail
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carychium 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

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 itCarychiidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller 1773