Planorbarius
Searched as Planorbarius cornu mantelli. The Paleobiology Database treats Planorbarius as the accepted name.
Planorbarius is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Planorbidae, which all have sinistral or left-coiling shells.

Claus Ableiter · 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.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoretiniPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 2.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.82 Mya and 11.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Planorbarius 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
2 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Planorbarius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Planorbarius and its relatives
MioceneWhere Planorbarius and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
666 taxa- Lymnaea dilatata17 sites
- Pseudochloritis incrassata17 sites
- Limax12 sites
- Palaeotachea silvana11 sites
- Galba dupuyiana10 sites
- Gastrocopta nouletiana10 sites
- Gastrocopta acuminata9 sites
- Gyraulus applanatus9 sites
- Helicidae9 sites
- Prolagus oeningensis9 sites
- Testudo9 sites
- Bithynia8 sites
- Discus pleuradrus8 sites
- Ophisaurus8 sites
- Blackia miocaenica7 sites
- Cepaea eversa7 sites
- Granaria7 sites
- Lacerta7 sites
- Margaritifera flabellata7 sites
- Megacricetodon minor7 sites
- Triptychia7 sites
- Anguidae6 sites
- Cepaea sylvestrina6 sites
- Democricetodon minor gracilis6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Planorbarius, 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 2 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 content2
Picture of Planorbarius
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Claus Ableiter
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Planorbarius corneus · MZRC:1121
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCoretini through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dumeril 1806