Gastrocopta

Gastrocopta is a genus of minute air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Gastrocoptidae.

Gastrocopta

W. H. Dall (1845-1927) · Public Domain · 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
GastrocoptidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 51.1 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 69 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 69 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 40 of 69 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 69 occurrencesPleistocene — about 25 of 69 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 12 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 5 occurrences10–8.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.7–7.0 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.0–5.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.2–3.5 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.5–1.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.7–0 Mya — about 24 occurrences45.9 Mya129 ka52 Mya0 Mya

69 occurrences of Gastrocopta 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

69 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

Ober Süßwassermolasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°Wfacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EAfyon — 39.00°N, 31.00°ERandeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°ESappa — 39.80°N, 98.10°WBorgloon — 50.80°N, 5.33°EBridger — 41.20°N, 110.50°WSajovolgyi — 47.97°N, 19.69°E

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The named rock units Gastrocopta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gastrocopta and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gastrocopta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,123 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Gastrocopta, 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

28 references

Each of the 69 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. 16 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 Gastrocopta

Credit
W. H. Dall (1845-1927)
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gastrocopta 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 itGastrocoptidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wollaston 1878