Gyraulus vermicularis

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- GyraulusPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Planorbidae
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.8 Mya to 11.7 ka.
8 occurrences of Gyraulus vermicularis 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
8 occurrences- Miocene38%
- Pleistocene63%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Gyraulus vermicularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gyraulus vermicularis and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Gyraulus vermicularis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
665 taxa- Acanthinucella spirata4 sites
- Acteocina culcitella4 sites
- Balcis micans4 sites
- Caecum crebricinctum4 sites
- Caesia fossatus4 sites
- Caesia perpinguis4 sites
- Californiconus californicus4 sites
- Callianax biplicata4 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum4 sites
- Calliostoma tricolor4 sites
- Cryptomya californica4 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum4 sites
- Donax (Donax) gouldii4 sites
- Epilucina californica4 sites
- Fissurella volcano4 sites
- Glans carpenteri4 sites
- Globidrillia hemphilli4 sites
- Hima cooperi4 sites
- Hirtoscala tincta4 sites
- Homalopoma (Homalopoma) luridum4 sites
- Laevicardium substriatum4 sites
- Leptopecten latiauratus4 sites
- Leukoma staminea4 sites
- Lirobittium rugatum4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Gyraulus vermicularis, 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- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California2
- Molluscs as a major part of subtropical shallow-water carbonate production - an example from a Middle Miocene oolite shoal (Upper Serravallian, Austria)1
- Biostratigraphy of Middle Miocene (Sarmatian) wetland systems in an Eastern Alpine intramontane basin (Gratkorn Basin, Austria): the terrestrial gastropod approach1
- Sarmatian (Late Middle Miocene) Gastropod Assemblages of the Central Paratethys1
- The Camp Cady Local Fauna: Paleoenvironment of the Lake Manix Basin1
- Report on Pleistocene Molluscan Fauna at Capistrano Beach, Orange County, Calif1
- An Upper Pleistocene fauna from the Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles County, California1
Each of the 8 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 Gyraulus vermicularis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Gyraulus vermicularis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itGyraulus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gould 1847)