Pseudosuccinea
Pseudosuccinea is a genus of air-breathing freshwater snails, aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.

G. Oberholzer & J. A. Van Eeden · 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
- LymnaeidaePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Lymnaeidae
Time the record covers
At least 48 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Pseudosuccinea 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
4 occurrences- Eocene25%
- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene25%
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
2 formations
- Fort Thompson Formation1
- Reklaw Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Pseudosuccinea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pseudosuccinea and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Pseudosuccinea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Daedalochila2 sites
- Haitia hendersoni2 sites
- Haitia heterostropha heterostropha2 sites
- Haitia sp.2 sites
- Viviparus2 sites
- Acar1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Alveinus minutus1 site
- Amusium1 site
- Ancilla staminea1 site
- Anodontia1 site
- Antalis1 site
- Antillophos1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Architectonica (Granosolarium)1 site
- Architectonica (Stellaxis)1 site
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)1 site
- Athleta petrosa1 site
- Atlanta funicularis1 site
- Atrina1 site
- Bankia1 site
- Bankia (Lyrodobankia)1 site
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca)1 site
- Bathyarca1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pseudosuccinea, 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- Non-marine Mollusca2
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- Mollusca: Fort Thompson Formation (Late Pleistocene)1
Each of the 4 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 Pseudosuccinea
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- G. Oberholzer & J. A. Van Eeden
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pseudosuccinea 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
- 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 itLymnaeidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Say 1817