Hydrobia (Hydrobia)

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HydrobiaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Hydrobiidae
Time the record covers
At least 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 41.03 Mya.
8 occurrences of Hydrobia (Hydrobia) on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Hydrobia (Hydrobia) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
132 taxa- Bouryia distensa2 sites
- Bythinella2 sites
- Calyptraea chinensis2 sites
- Costhyrella2 sites
- Haustator eryna2 sites
- Hespererato transiens2 sites
- Hydrobia (Peringia)2 sites
- Lapparentia2 sites
- Littoraria (Littorinopsis)2 sites
- Melanopsis2 sites
- Neverita josephinia2 sites
- Potamides2 sites
- Potamides (Ptychopotamides)2 sites
- Sandbergeria2 sites
- Simnia (Neosimnia) semen2 sites
- Stalioa2 sites
- Stenothyra2 sites
- Terebralia bidentata2 sites
- Trivia (Sulcotrivia) dautzenbergi2 sites
- Turritella (Haustator) incrassata2 sites
- Acirsa (Hemiacirsa) clathrata1 site
- Acrocoelum1 site
- Adeorbis1 site
- Alvania1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Hydrobia (Hydrobia), 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
3 references- Les Mesogastropoda Fossiles du Cenozoïque étranger des Collections de L'Institute Royale des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique: Cyclophoridae à Stilifetidae5
- Un nouveau genre d’Hydrobiidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia) du Paléogène du Bassin de Paris2
- Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossil Gastropoda from Yunnan1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Hydrobia (Hydrobia)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Stichting Observation International
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Hydrobia (Hydrobia) 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 itHydrobia through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hartmann 1821