Vitrea

Vitrea is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Pristilomatidae.

Vitrea

Francisco Welter Schultes · Public Domain · 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
PristilomatidaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.75 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 13.82 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 6 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 6 of 14 occurrencesPleistocene14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.1–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–8.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.1–7.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.6–7.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.2–6.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.7–6.2 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.2–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–4.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–3.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.8–3.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.3–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.4–1.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.9–1.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.4–955 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences955 ka–477 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences477 ka–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences12.75 Mya11.7 ka14.3 Mya0 Mya

14 occurrences of Vitrea 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

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

2 formations

Edelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°E

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The named rock units Vitrea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Vitrea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Vitrea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

433 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Vitrea, 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

11 references

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 content2

Picture of Vitrea

Credit
Francisco Welter Schultes
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Eulepetopsis vitrea · SMF:363898b

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 itPristilomatidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fitzinger 1833)