Gastrodontoidea

Gastrodontoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the limacoid clade.

Gastrodontoidea

Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org · CC BY 3.0 us · 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
LimacoideiPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 16.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 32 of 54 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 54 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 19 of 54 occurrencesPleistocene17–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 8 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.3–8.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.7–8.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.1–7.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences7.5–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.0–6.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.4–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–5.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.2–4.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.6–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–2.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.9–2.3 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.3–1.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.7–1.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences1.2–580 ka Mya — about 5 occurrences580 ka–0 Mya — about 12 occurrences15.98 Mya11.7 ka17.4 Mya0 Mya

54 occurrences of Gastrodontoidea 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

54 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

facies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°ELower Bone Bed — 39.25°N, 8.68°WEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°ELefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°E

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The named rock units Gastrodontoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gastrodontoidea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Gastrodontoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

875 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Gastrodontoidea, 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

24 references

Each of the 54 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. 12 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 content1

Picture of Gastrodontoidea

Credit
Scott Bauer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org
Licence
CC BY 3.0 us
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gastrodontoidea 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 itLimacoidei through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tryon 1866