Lanistes

Lanistes is a genus of freshwater snails which have a gill and an operculum, aquatic gastropod mollusks in the family Ampullariidae, the apple snails.

Lanistes

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmpullariidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Ampullariidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ampullariidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ampullariidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Ampullariidae

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 3 of 87 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 87 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 59 of 87 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 87 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 87 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 5 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–9.8 Mya — about 5 occurrences9.8–8.4 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.4–7.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.0–5.6 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.6–4.2 Mya — about 10 occurrences4.2–2.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences2.8–1.4 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences37.71 Mya11.7 ka41.9 Mya0 Mya

87 occurrences of Lanistes on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

87 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

11 formations

Nkondo — 1.50°N, 31.00°EWembere-Manonga — 3.88°S, 33.72°EWembere-Manonga — 3.92°S, 33.82°EWembere-Manonga — 3.92°S, 33.87°EWembere-Manonga — 3.09°S, 33.73°EWembere-Manonga — 3.98°S, 33.96°ENyaburogo — 1.00°N, 30.50°EAshawq — 17.00°N, 54.00°EChiwondo — 10.17°S, 34.00°EChiwondo — 10.05°S, 33.96°EZalumah — 17.42°N, 54.00°ENawata and Nachukui — 2.88°N, 36.07°EWarwire — 1.50°N, 31.00°ENkondo or Oluka — 1.50°N, 31.00°EOluka — 1.00°N, 30.50°ELothidok — 3.33°N, 35.75°E

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The named rock units Lanistes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lanistes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lanistes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

324 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Lanistes, 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

28 references

Each of the 87 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. 16 further references are not listed. 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 Lanistes

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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 itAmpullariidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Montfort 1810