Succinea

Succinea, common name the amber snails, is a large genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the family Succineidae.

Succinea

Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SuccineinaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Succineidae

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 39 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 39 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 39 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 39 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 39 occurrencesPleistocene — about 30 of 39 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–0 Mya — about 30 occurrences56 Mya11.7 ka67 Mya0 Mya

39 occurrences of Succinea 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

39 occurrences

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

9 formations

Afyon — 39.00°N, 31.00°E"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WSappa — 39.80°N, 98.10°WHeadon Beds — 50.72°N, 1.59°WEntrerriense — 42.25°S, 64.08°WShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WVarswater — 32.97°S, 18.15°EEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EZalumah — 17.42°N, 54.00°E

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The named rock units Succinea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Succinea and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Succinea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

669 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Succinea, 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

24 references

Each of the 39 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. 12 further references are not listed. 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 Succinea

Credit
Charles J. Sharp
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
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

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 itSuccineinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Draparnaud 1801