Radix socialis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RadixPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Lymnaeidae
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
3 occurrences of Radix socialis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Radix socialis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Radix socialis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Radix socialis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Apula coarctata2 sites
- Bithynia glabra2 sites
- Discus pleuradrus2 sites
- Gastrocopta acuminata2 sites
- Gastrocopta nouletiana2 sites
- Gyraulus applanatus2 sites
- Leucochroopsis kleinii2 sites
- Lymnaea dilatata2 sites
- Planorbarius cornu2 sites
- Pseudochloritis incrassata2 sites
- Anisus1 site
- Belgrandiella sp.1 site
- Carychium nouleti1 site
- Caucasotachea (Caucasotachea) phrygomysica1 site
- Cepaea eversa1 site
- Cepaea sylvestrina1 site
- Ferrissia deperdita1 site
- Galba (Galba)1 site
- Galba dupuyiana1 site
- Gyraulus albertanus1 site
- Helicidae1 site
- Helicodontidae1 site
- Hippeutis1 site
- Hygromia (Monacha)1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Radix socialis, 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- Fossil land and freshwater gastropods from the Middle Miocene of Bechingen and Daugendorf, southwestern Germany1
- The fossil pulmonate snails of Sandelzhausen (Early/Middle Miocene, Germany) (Hygrophila, Punctoidea and limacoids)1
- Neogene Mollusken aus dem Tertiärbecken bei Afyon, Tuerkey1
Each of the 3 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 Radix socialis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itRadix through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zieten 1830)