Helicopsis piedmontanica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelicopsisPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 7.246 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Helicopsis piedmontanica 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
5 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Helicopsis piedmontanica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Helicopsis piedmontanica and its relatives
MioceneWhere Helicopsis piedmontanica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
136 taxa- Agriolimacidae5 sites
- Clausilia (Clausilia) baudoni5 sites
- Cochlostoma esuanum5 sites
- Craspedopoma conoidale5 sites
- Limax fossilis5 sites
- Lucilla miocaenica5 sites
- Melanoides curvicosta5 sites
- Melanopsis narzolina5 sites
- Milacidae5 sites
- Nordsieckia pontica5 sites
- Parmacella5 sites
- Saccoia globosa5 sites
- Saccoia oryza5 sites
- Serrulella5 sites
- Theodoxus doderleini5 sites
- Theodoxus mutinensis5 sites
- Truciella ballesioi5 sites
- Anguinae4 sites
- Apodemus atavus4 sites
- Apodemus gudrunae4 sites
- Cecilioides acicula4 sites
- Centralomys benericettii4 sites
- Chiroptera4 sites
- Cochlodina (Miophaedusa)4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Helicopsis piedmontanica, 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- Late Messinian continental and Lago-Mare gastropods from the Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy4
- Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications1
Each of the 5 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. 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
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No picture of Helicopsis piedmontanica was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Helicopsis piedmontanica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helicopsis piedmontanica 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHelicopsis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harzhauser et al. 2015