Gyraulus albertanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GyraulusPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Planorbidae
Time the record covers
At most 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 occurrences of Gyraulus albertanus 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
9 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
4 formations
- Ober Süßwassermolasse Formation4
- Kirchberg Formation2
- Grimmelfingen Formation1
- Upper Freshwater Molasse Formation · Molasse Group1
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The named rock units Gyraulus albertanus 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.
Gyraulus albertanus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Gyraulus albertanus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Galba dupuyiana5 sites
- Helicidae5 sites
- Planorbarius cornu5 sites
- Pseudidyla moersingensis5 sites
- Pseudochloritis incrassata5 sites
- Vertigo callosa5 sites
- Cepaea eversa4 sites
- Cepaea sylvestrina4 sites
- Gastrocopta nouletiana4 sites
- Granaria4 sites
- Granaria grossecostata4 sites
- Gyraulus applanatus4 sites
- Lymnaea dilatata4 sites
- Triptychia4 sites
- Archaeozonites3 sites
- Carychium (Carychium) galli3 sites
- Gastrocopta acuminata3 sites
- Apula coarctata2 sites
- Discus pleuradrus2 sites
- Leucochroopsis kleinii2 sites
- Limax2 sites
- Oxyloma minima2 sites
- Palaeoglandina2 sites
- Sphaerium2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Gyraulus albertanus, 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
2 references- The fossil pulmonate snails of Sandelzhausen (Early/Middle Miocene, Germany) (Hygrophila, Punctoidea and limacoids)5
- Early Miocene continental gastropods from new localities of the Molasse Basin in southern Germany4
Each of the 9 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 Gyraulus albertanus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gyraulus albertanus 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 itGyraulus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Clessin 1877)