Emmericia
Emmericia is a genus of very small freshwater snails which have an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Amnicolidae, according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda.
Alexander Mrkvicka · 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
- EmmericiinaePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Emmerciidae
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Emmericia 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
6 occurrences- Miocene83%
- Pliocene9%
- Pleistocene8%
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
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The named rock units Emmericia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Emmericia and its relatives
MioceneWhere Emmericia and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Anisus (Odontogyrorbis) krambergeri3 sites
- Bithynia jurinaci3 sites
- Carychium sandbergeri3 sites
- Limax3 sites
- Nesovitrea disciformis3 sites
- Pomatias conicus3 sites
- Acicula edlaueri2 sites
- Anisus confusus2 sites
- Bithynia2 sites
- Carychium berthae2 sites
- Discus pleuradrus2 sites
- Helicidae2 sites
- Hydrobia pseudocornea2 sites
- Klikia (Klikia) trolli2 sites
- Melanopsis fuchsi2 sites
- Planorbarius mantelli2 sites
- Strobilops (Strobilops) pachychila2 sites
- Tropidomphalus (Pseudochlorites) richarzi2 sites
- Valvata helicoides2 sites
- Vertigo (Vertilla) oecsensis2 sites
- Vitrea procrystallina steinheimensis2 sites
- Acanthinula trochulus1 site
- Aegopinella reussi1 site
- Anodonta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Emmericia, 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
4 references- Synopsis of the Late Miocene mollusc fauna of the classical sections Richardhof and Eichkogel in the Vienna Basin (Austria, Pannonian, MN 9-MN11)3
- Early Miocene gastropod and ectothermic vertebrate remains from the Lesvos Petrified Forest (Greece)1
- A Middle Miocene endemic freshwater mollusc assemblage from an intramontane Alpine lake (Aflenz Basin, Eastern Alps, Austria)1
- The section of Torre Picchio (Terni, Umbria, Central Italy): A Villafranchian site rich in vertebrates, molluscs, ostracods and plants.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 Emmericia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Alexander Mrkvicka
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Emmericia 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, “Emmericia”
- 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 itEmmericiinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brusina 1870