Planorbidae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlanorboideaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 372 million years on record.
The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 0 Mya.
672 occurrences of Planorbidae 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
672 occurrences- Devonianunder 1%
- Carboniferousunder 1%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Jurassicunder 1%
- Late Jurassicunder 1%
- Early Cretaceousunder 1%
- Late Cretaceous2%
- Paleocene1%
- Eocene16%
- Oligocene2%
- Miocene38%
- Pliocene7%
- Pleistocene28%
- Holocene3%
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
93 formations
- Kirchberg Formation22
- Headon Beds Formation21
- Ober Süßwassermolasse Formation16
- Fort Thompson Formation15
- Bembridge Limestone Formation12
- Randeck Maar Formation12
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The named rock units Planorbidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 69 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 332 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Planorbidae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Planorbidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
4,845 taxa- Planorbis80 sites
- Gyraulus42 sites
- Limnaea34 sites
- Hydrobia29 sites
- Pisidium27 sites
- Lymnaea23 sites
- Physa23 sites
- Anisus21 sites
- Unio20 sites
- Vertigo20 sites
- Bithynia19 sites
- Helisoma18 sites
- Melanopsis18 sites
- Cerithium17 sites
- Valvata17 sites
- Osteichthyes16 sites
- Paludina16 sites
- Candona14 sites
- Crocodylia14 sites
- Succinea14 sites
- Viviparus14 sites
- Aves13 sites
- Chiroptera13 sites
- Limax13 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 353 sites for Planorbidae, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
184 references- Middle Miocene freshwater mollusks from Lake Sinj (Dinaride lake system, SE Croatia; Langhian)39
- Early Miocene continental gastropods from new localities of the Molasse Basin in southern Germany35
- On the Tertiary fluvio-marine formation of the Isle of Wight32
- The Middle Miocene freshwater mollusk fauna of Lake Gacko (SE Bosnia and Herzegovina): taxonomic revision and paleoenvironmental analysis28
- Moluscos continentales del Plio-Pleistoceno de la cuenca de Guadix-Baza23
- Non-marine Mollusca21
- The fossil pulmonate snails of Sandelzhausen (Early/Middle Miocene, Germany) (Hygrophila, Punctoidea and limacoids)20
- Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers at Ishango (eastern Zaire): the faunal evidence15
- Synopsis of the Late Miocene mollusc fauna of the classical sections Richardhof and Eichkogel in the Vienna Basin (Austria, Pannonian, MN 9-MN11)13
- Fossil gastropods from Miocene Lake Randeck Maar and its hinterland (SW Germany)12
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)11
- Pliocene Molluscs and Fishes from Northeastern California and Northwestern Nevada11
Each of the 672 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. 172 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 Planorbidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Liang Liu, Mohammed M. H. Mondal, Mohamed A. Idris, Hakim S. Lokman, R. P. V. Jayanthe Rajapakse, Fadjar Satrija, Jos…
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Planorbidae 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 itPlanorboidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1815