Helicella ericetorum
Helicella is a genus of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Helicellinae of the family Geomitridae, the hairy snails and their allies.

Iranshahi.Amir Ali · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 1.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 774 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Helicella ericetorum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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- Pleistocene100%
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.
Helicella ericetorum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Helicella ericetorum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Abida sp.1 site
- Arianta arbustorum1 site
- Canis etruscus1 site
- Castor fiber1 site
- Cervus1 site
- Cervus nestii1 site
- Clausilia1 site
- Crocuta1 site
- Croizetoceros ramosus1 site
- Culcita1 site
- Deperetia1 site
- Equus1 site
- Felis toscana1 site
- Gazellospira1 site
- Helix1 site
- Hyalinia1 site
- Hygromia (Fruticicola)1 site
- Hygromia (Monacha)1 site
- Hystrix1 site
- Leporidae1 site
- Libralces gallicus1 site
- Limnaea1 site
- Lycyaena1 site
- Lymnaea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Helicella ericetorum, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Helicella ericetorum
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Iranshahi.Amir Ali
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Helicella ericetorum 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, “Helicella”
- 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 itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.