Eobania vermiculata
Eobania vermiculata also known as Helix vermiculata, common name the "chocolate-band snail", is a species of large, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the true snails or typical snails.

Andrey Butko · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 2.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 129 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Eobania vermiculata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
2 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.
Eobania vermiculata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Eobania vermiculata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
57 taxa- Colubridae2 sites
- Apodemus mystacinus1 site
- Aves1 site
- Bos primigenius1 site
- Bovidae1 site
- Bufo bufo1 site
- Canis1 site
- Canis othmanii1 site
- Capreolus1 site
- Ceratotherium simum1 site
- Cernuella1 site
- Cervus1 site
- Chondrina similis1 site
- Crocidura1 site
- Crocidura kornfeldi1 site
- Cyprinidae1 site
- Dama1 site
- Discoglossus1 site
- Discoglossus pictus1 site
- Discus1 site
- Eliomys1 site
- Equus1 site
- Equus caballus1 site
- Eulipotyphla1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Eobania vermiculata, 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
2 references- Canis othmanii sp. nov. (Carnivora, Canidae) from the early Middle Pleistocene site of Wadi Sarrat (Tunisia)1
- Fauna Cromeriana della Montagnola Senese1
Each of the 2 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 Eobania vermiculata
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Andrey Butko
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eobania vermiculata 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 itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.