Vallonia costata

Francisco Welter Schultes · Public Domain · via Wikidata/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
- ValloniaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Valloniidae
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Vallonia costata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
14 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Vallonia costata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Vallonia costata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
342 taxa- Pupilla muscorum10 sites
- Trochulus8 sites
- Succinea7 sites
- Clausilia5 sites
- Arianta sp.4 sites
- Catinella4 sites
- Microtus4 sites
- Myodes4 sites
- Vallonia pulchella4 sites
- Vertigo4 sites
- Aegopinella3 sites
- Bovidae3 sites
- Bufo3 sites
- Bulimus lubricus3 sites
- Dicrostonyx3 sites
- Galba truncatula3 sites
- Limax3 sites
- Microtus arvalis3 sites
- Mimomys3 sites
- Punctum3 sites
- Sciuridae3 sites
- Sorex3 sites
- Sphaerium3 sites
- Talpa minor3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Vallonia costata, 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
7 references- Early Middle Pleistocene mammalian faunas from Karlich (Kaerlich) and Miesenheim I and their biostratigraphical implications4
- Donnees nouvelles sur les microfaunes malacologiques et sur les rongeurs du Pleistocene continental de la Basse-Seine4
- Zur Kenntnis der postjurassischen Deckschichten in der Umgebung des Nördlinger Rieses2
- Pre-Late Wisconsinan Pleistocene biota from southeastern Michigan, U.S.A.1
- Late Pleistocene land Mollusca in the Channel Islands1
- The Clark's Cave bone deposit and the Late Pleistocene paleoecology of the central Appalachian Mountains of Virginia1
- Altpleistocäne Säuger von Schernfeld bei Eichstätt in Bayern1
Each of the 14 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 Vallonia costata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Francisco Welter Schultes
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Vallonia costata 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVallonia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Müller 1774)