Valvata piscinalis

Valvata piscinalis, common name the European stream valvata or European valve snail, is a species of small freshwater snail with gills and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Valvatidae, the valve snails. It is also known as Cincinna piscinalis.

Valvata piscinalis

Michal Maňas · CC BY 4.0 · 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
ValvataPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwaterPBDB, for Valvatidae

Time the record covers

At least 4.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.09 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 8.725 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 11 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 9 of 11 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 11 occurrences8.9–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–8.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.3–8.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.0–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–7.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.1–6.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.8–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.2–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–5.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.5–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.2–4.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.9–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.6–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.4–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.1–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.5–2.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences2.2–1.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.8–1.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.5–1.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences1.2–922 ka Mya — about 0.4 occurrences922 ka–615 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences615 ka–308 ka Mya — about 0.8 occurrences308 ka–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.09 Mya129 ka9.2 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Valvata piscinalis 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

11 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

5 formations

Santa Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WVistula — 54.28°N, 19.48°ESuchacz — 54.28°N, 19.49°ELecze — 54.27°N, 19.48°E

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The named rock units Valvata piscinalis 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.

Valvata piscinalis and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Valvata piscinalis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

143 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Valvata piscinalis, 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

Each of the 11 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 Valvata piscinalis

Credit
Michal Maňas
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Valvata piscinalis 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.

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 itValvata through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Müller 1774)