Carychium minimum

Carychium minimum is a species of very small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.

Carychium minimum

H. Zell · 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
CarychiumPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Ellobioidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ellobioidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ellobioidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 3 of 7 occurrencesPleistocene13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.9–8.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.4–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.5–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.2–1.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.8–1.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.3–887 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences887 ka–443 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences443 ka–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences11.63 Mya11.7 ka13.3 Mya0 Mya

7 occurrences of Carychium minimum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

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

2 formations

Venta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WHolic — 48.81°N, 17.17°E

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The named rock units Carychium minimum 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.

Carychium minimum and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Carychium minimum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

170 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Carychium minimum, 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

6 references

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. 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 minimum

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carychium minimum 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.

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 itCarychium through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Muller 1774