Helicarion sp.
Helicarion is a genus of air-breathing land snails or semislugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Helicarionidae.

Poyt448 Peter Woodard · 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 4.5 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 15.98 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Helicarion sp. on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
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.
Helicarion sp. and its relatives
MioceneWhere Helicarion sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- ? Lystriodon jeanneli1 site
- Afrohyrax championi1 site
- Afrotragulus parvus1 site
- Alestidae1 site
- Archachatina sp.1 site
- Burtoa sp.1 site
- Carnivora1 site
- Chilotherium1 site
- Ciconiiformes1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Diamantohyus africanus1 site
- Dicerorhinus1 site
- Dorcatherium pigotti1 site
- Gulella sp.1 site
- Heterocypris1 site
- Homorus sp.1 site
- Insectivora1 site
- Limicolaria1 site
- Limnopithecus legetet1 site
- Maizania1 site
- Masritherium aequatorialis1 site
- Megapedetes1 site
- Melanoides tuberculata1 site
- Meroehyrax1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Helicarion sp., 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Helicarion sp.
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Poyt448 Peter Woodard
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Helicarion sp. 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Helicarion”
- 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 itFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.