Radiodiscus
Radiodiscus is a genus of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Charopidae.

F. von Iterson († 16 January 1907 [ 1 ] ) ↑ [1] · Public Domain · 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
- CharopidaePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48 Mya and 42 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Radiodiscus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Radiodiscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Radiodiscus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Radiodiscus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Bulimus lutescens1 site
- Colhueconus simpsoni1 site
- Gyrocochlea1 site
- Lilloiconcha1 site
- Plagiodontes dentatus1 site
- Rotadiscus1 site
- Stephadiscus1 site
- Stephanoda mazzonii1 site
- Zilchogyra1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Radiodiscus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 Radiodiscus
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- F. von Iterson († 16 January 1907 [ 1 ] ) ↑ [1]
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Radiodiscus”
- 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 itCharopidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pilsbry 1906