Littoridinops
Littoridinops is a genus of very small aquatic snails, operculate gastropod mollusks in the family Hydrobiidae.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CochliopidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Rissooidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rissooidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Rissooidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Cochliopidae
Time the record covers
At least 7.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 7.246 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.
2 occurrences of Littoridinops 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
2 occurrencesThese 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 Littoridinops 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.
Littoridinops and its relatives
MioceneWhere Littoridinops and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Acropora cervicornis1 site
- Agaricia1 site
- Agaricia agaricites1 site
- Agaricia lamarcki1 site
- Brachidontes modiolus1 site
- Candonopsis1 site
- Chama sinuosa1 site
- Charadreon glabrum1 site
- Colpophyllia natans1 site
- Cyprideis1 site
- Cytheridella1 site
- Dichocoenia stokesi1 site
- Dyris bicarinatus bicarinatus1 site
- Eucypris1 site
- Eusmilia fastigiata1 site
- Leptoseris cucullata1 site
- Loxoconcha fischeri1 site
- Madracis1 site
- Manicina areolata1 site
- Montastrea cavernosa1 site
- Mussa angulosa1 site
- Neritina1 site
- Orbicella annularis1 site
- Orbicella faveolata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Littoridinops, 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- Unusual Holocene serpulid-tufa bioherms, Enriquillo Valley, Dominican. Republic: Morphologies and paleoenvironmental implications1
- Molluscs from the Miocene Pebas Formation of Peruvian and Colombian Amazonia1
Each of the 2 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 Littoridinops
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Littoridinops 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
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCochliopidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pilsbry 1952