Vertigo

Vertigo is a genus of minute, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs or micromollusks in the family Vertiginidae, the whorl snails.

Vertigo

Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 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
VertigininaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 45.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 80 occurrencesEocene — about 4 of 80 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 80 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 33 of 80 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 80 occurrencesPleistocene — about 33 of 80 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 6 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 7 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 30 occurrences45.9 Mya11.7 ka57 Mya0 Mya

80 occurrences of Vertigo 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

80 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

9 formations

Afyon — 39.00°N, 31.00°EOber Süßwassermolasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EBorgloon — 50.80°N, 5.33°EFort Thompson — 26.76°N, 81.44°WWind River — 43.36°N, 107.41°WWind River — 43.36°N, 107.88°WVenta del Moro-Villatoya — 39.48°N, 1.35°WCórcoles — 40.47°N, 2.68°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°E

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The named rock units Vertigo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vertigo and its relatives

Miocene

Where Vertigo and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

949 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Vertigo, 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

34 references

Each of the 80 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. 22 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 content2

Picture of Vertigo

Credit
Gilles San Martin
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

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What may have been alongside itVertigininae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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