Cecilioides acicula
Cecilioides acicula, also known as the blind snail or blind awlsnail, is a subterranean species of small, air-breathing land snail. It is a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ferussaciidae.
Francisco Welter Schultes · CC BY-SA 2.5 · 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
- CecilioidesPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 5.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 0 Mya.
6 occurrences of Cecilioides acicula on record. 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
6 occurrencesThese 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 Cecilioides acicula has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
180 taxa- Clausilia (Clausilia) baudoni5 sites
- Negulopsis5 sites
- Nordsieckia pontica5 sites
- Serrulella5 sites
- Truciella ballesioi5 sites
- Acicula lineata4 sites
- Agriolimacidae4 sites
- Cochlodina (Miophaedusa)4 sites
- Cochlostoma esuanum4 sites
- Craspedopoma conoidale4 sites
- Helicopsis piedmontanica4 sites
- Janulus spadinii4 sites
- Limax fossilis4 sites
- Lucilla miocaenica4 sites
- Melanoides curvicosta4 sites
- Melanopsis narzolina4 sites
- Milacidae4 sites
- Parmacella4 sites
- Saccoia globosa4 sites
- Saccoia oryza4 sites
- Theodoxus doderleini4 sites
- Theodoxus mutinensis4 sites
- Anguinae3 sites
- Apodemus atavus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cecilioides acicula, 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
3 references- Late Messinian continental and Lago-Mare gastropods from the Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy3
- Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications2
- L'environnement côtier des Alpes-Maritimes à la fin de la transgression versilienne d'après l'étude biostratigraphique du site de l'Etoile à Nice (France)1
Each of the 6 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 Cecilioides acicula
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Francisco Welter Schultes
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cecilioides acicula 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCecilioides through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Müller 1774)