Semisulcospira elegans
Semisulcospira is a genus of freshwater snails with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod molluscs in the family Semisulcospiridae.

Ellen STRONG · CC BY 4.0 · 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.
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Semisulcospira elegans on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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- Pleistocene100%
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 Semisulcospira elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Semisulcospira elegans and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Semisulcospira elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Margarya sp.2 sites
- Unio2 sites
- Candona1 site
- Candoniella1 site
- Canis1 site
- Cervavitus1 site
- Cervus1 site
- Corbicula1 site
- Cypria1 site
- Equus yunnanensis1 site
- Felis1 site
- Gazella1 site
- Gyraulus1 site
- Ilyocypris1 site
- Ilyocypris bradyi1 site
- Ilyocypris gibba1 site
- Muntiacus nanus1 site
- Pachycrocuta licenti1 site
- Rhinoceros1 site
- Rhinoceros sinensis1 site
- Stegodon elephantoides1 site
- Stegodon zhaotongensis1 site
- Trogontherium1 site
- Viviparus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Semisulcospira elegans, 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 content1
Picture of Semisulcospira elegans
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Ellen STRONG
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Semisulcospira elegans 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.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.