Oleacinidae
Oleacinidae is a taxonomic family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata.

D. G. Robinson, A. Hovestadt, A. Fields & A. S. H. Breure · CC BY 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.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OleacinoideaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 9.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 9.67 Mya.
11 occurrences of Oleacinidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
11 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
- Arcadia Formation · Hawthorn Group1
- Randeck Maar Formation1
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The named rock units Oleacinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Oleacinidae and its relatives
MioceneWhere Oleacinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
380 taxa- Argna oppoliensis4 sites
- Acanthinula trochulus3 sites
- Azeca3 sites
- Gastrocopta (Sinalbinula) ferdinandi3 sites
- Helicodiscus roemeri3 sites
- Phenacolimax intermedius3 sites
- Renea pretiosa3 sites
- Acanthinula tuchoricensis2 sites
- Acicula lineata2 sites
- Aegopinella2 sites
- Agalactochilus silesiacus2 sites
- Agriolimacidae2 sites
- Aplexa subhypnorum2 sites
- Archaeozonites conicus2 sites
- Azeca frechi2 sites
- Carychium nouleti2 sites
- Carychium stworzewiczae2 sites
- Clausiliidae2 sites
- Craspedopoma2 sites
- Daudebardia praecursor2 sites
- Discus2 sites
- Eostrobilops boettgeri2 sites
- Esuinella nana2 sites
- Gastrocopta (Albinula) polonica2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Oleacinidae, 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- Opole (Poland) - a key locality for middle Miocene terrestrial mollusc faunas4
- Zweiter Beitrag zur Binnenconchylienfauna des Miocäne von Oppeln in Schlesien2
- Fossil gastropods from Miocene Lake Randeck Maar and its hinterland (SW Germany)1
- The fossil land and freshwater snails of Gündlkofen (Middle Miocene, Germany)1
- Synopsis of the Late Miocene mollusc fauna of the classical sections Richardhof and Eichkogel in the Vienna Basin (Austria, Pannonian, MN 9-MN11)1
- Miocenskie slimaki ladowe we wschodniej czesci odkrywki KWB Belchatow [Miocene land snails from eastern part of Belchatow Brown Coal delf.]1
- Molluscs of the Tampa and Suwannee Limestones1
Each of the 11 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 Oleacinidae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- D. G. Robinson, A. Hovestadt, A. Fields & A. S. H. Breure
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Oleacinidae 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, “Oleacinidae”
- 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 itOleacinoidea through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams and Adams 1850