Hippeutis
Hippeutis is a genus of minute air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Planorbidae, the ramshorn snails.

George Brettingham Sowerby II · 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
- PlanorbidaePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Planorbidae
Time the record covers
At least 88 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
4 occurrences of Hippeutis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
4 occurrences- Early Cretaceous25%
- Oligocene25%
- Miocene50%
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
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The named rock units Hippeutis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hippeutis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hippeutis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Gastrocopta nouletiana2 sites
- Planorbarius cornu2 sites
- Vallonia lepida2 sites
- Acanthopteris onychioides1 site
- Anisus (Anisus)1 site
- Apula coarctata1 site
- Cepaea eversa1 site
- Cepaea sylvestrina1 site
- Columella sp.1 site
- Cypridea1 site
- Darwinula1 site
- Discus pleuradrus1 site
- Galba (Galba)1 site
- Galba dupuyiana1 site
- Gastrocopta acuminata1 site
- Ginkgo1 site
- Gyraulus1 site
- Gyraulus albertanus1 site
- Gyraulus applanatus1 site
- Gyraulus trochiformis1 site
- Helicidae1 site
- Helicodontidae1 site
- Hydrobia1 site
- Imparietinia primitivobsoleta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hippeutis, 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
4 references- The fossil pulmonate snails of Sandelzhausen (Early/Middle Miocene, Germany) (Hygrophila, Punctoidea and limacoids)1
- Discovery of the Dinosaur fossil in Heishan, Liaoning and its stratigraphical significance1
- Neogene Mollusken aus dem Tertiärbecken bei Afyon, Tuerkey1
- Zur Palaeontologie und Biostratigraphie des Tertiärs im Neuwieder Becken; I, Taxonomie und stratigraphische Bedeutung von Mollusken1
Each of the 4 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
Media content1
Picture of Hippeutis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- George Brettingham Sowerby II
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Hippeutis 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Hippeutis”
- 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 itPlanorbidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Charpentier 1837