Renea
Renea is a genus of air-breathing land snails with an operculum, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Aciculidae.

Francisco Welter-Schultes [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
- AciculidaePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 5.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 12.75 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
8 occurrences of Renea 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
8 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 Renea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Renea and its relatives
MioceneWhere Renea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
220 taxa- Acicula lineata7 sites
- Agriolimacidae6 sites
- Helicodiscus roemeri6 sites
- Clausilia (Clausilia) baudoni5 sites
- Nordsieckia pontica5 sites
- Truciella ballesioi5 sites
- Argna proexcessiva4 sites
- Bulinus meneghinii4 sites
- Cochlodina (Miophaedusa)4 sites
- Cochlostoma esuanum4 sites
- Craspedopoma conoidale4 sites
- Limax fossilis4 sites
- Lucilla miocaenica4 sites
- Melanoides curvicosta4 sites
- Melanopsis narzolina4 sites
- Milacidae4 sites
- Parmacella4 sites
- Saccoia globosa4 sites
- Saccoia oryza4 sites
- Serrulella4 sites
- Theodoxus doderleini4 sites
- Theodoxus mutinensis4 sites
- Anguinae3 sites
- Apodemus atavus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Renea, 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
5 references- Late Messinian continental and Lago-Mare gastropods from the Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy3
- Late Messinian mollusks and vertebrates from Moncucco Torinese, north-western Italy. Paleoecological and paleoclimatological implications2
- Opole (Poland) - a key locality for middle Miocene terrestrial mollusc faunas1
- Miocenskie slimaki ladowe we wschodniej czesci odkrywki KWB Belchatow [Miocene land snails from eastern part of Belchatow Brown Coal delf.]1
- Dritter Beitrag zur Kenntnis des Miocäns von Oppeln i. Schl1
Each of the 8 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 Renea
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Francisco Welter-Schultes [1]
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Renea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itAciculidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neville 1880