Glyptophysa sp.

Glyptophysa is a genus of medium-sized sinistral (left-handed) air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family of Planorbidae.

A picture published with the record for Glyptophysa sp.. What it shows has not been checked.

corunastylis · CC0 · 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.

Time the record covers

At most 2.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 18.7 Mya and 15.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Glyptophysa sp. on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1 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

1 formation

Bannockburn — 44.91°S, 169.86°E

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The named rock units Glyptophysa sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Glyptophysa sp. and its relatives

Miocene

Where Glyptophysa sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Glyptophysa sp., and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Glyptophysa sp.

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corunastylis
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CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Glyptophysa sp. was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.