Ferrissia deperdita

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FerrissiaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Planorbidae
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya.
8 occurrences of Ferrissia deperdita 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
8 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- Randeck Maar Formation4
- Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group1
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The named rock units Ferrissia deperdita has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ferrissia deperdita and its relatives
MioceneWhere Ferrissia deperdita and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
176 taxa- Discus pleuradrus2 sites
- Gastrocopta acuminata2 sites
- Gyraulus applanatus2 sites
- Leucochroopsis kleinii2 sites
- Lymnaea dilatata2 sites
- Oxyloma minima2 sites
- Planorbarius cornu2 sites
- Pseudochloritis incrassata2 sites
- Acanthinula trochulus1 site
- Acanthinula tuchoricensis1 site
- Acicula isseli1 site
- Acicula lineata1 site
- Aegopinella1 site
- Aegopinella depressula1 site
- Agalactochilus silesiacus1 site
- Agriolimacidae1 site
- Albanerpeton inexpectatum1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Aplexa subhypnorum1 site
- Apula coarctata1 site
- Archaeozonites conicus1 site
- Argna oppoliensis1 site
- Azeca1 site
- Azeca frechi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ferrissia deperdita, 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- Fossil gastropods from Miocene Lake Randeck Maar and its hinterland (SW Germany)4
- Opole (Poland) - a key locality for middle Miocene terrestrial mollusc faunas1
- Fossil land and freshwater gastropods from the Middle Miocene of Bechingen and Daugendorf, southwestern Germany1
- The fossil pulmonate snails of Sandelzhausen (Early/Middle Miocene, Germany) (Hygrophila, Punctoidea and limacoids)1
- Présence d'Espèces du genre Ferrissia Walker, 1903 (Gastropoda, Basommatophora) dans le Néogène du bassin rhodanien (France)1
Each of the 8 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Ferrissia deperdita
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Ferrissia deperdita 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFerrissia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Desmarest 1814)