Succineidae

Succineidae are a family of small to medium-sized, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Succineoidea.

Succineidae

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
Also called
amber snailPBDB
Sits inside
SuccineoideaPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Environment
freshwater,terrestrialPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 4 of 55 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 55 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 2 of 55 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 55 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 11 of 55 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 55 occurrencesPleistocene — about 34 of 55 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 1 occurrence34–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.4–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 34 occurrences66 Mya11.7 ka74 Mya0 Mya

55 occurrences of Succineidae 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

55 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

13 formations

Queguay — 31.92°S, 57.91°WQueguay — 32.37°S, 57.61°WQueguay — 32.48°S, 57.41°WQueguay — 33.13°S, 57.25°WAfyon — 39.00°N, 31.00°E"unnamed sandstone" — 33.90°N, 117.00°WSappa — 39.80°N, 98.10°WOber Süßwassermolasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EHeadon 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°Efacies à Congeria — 45.05°N, 7.93°EDeep River — 46.63°N, 111.06°W

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The named rock units Succineidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 35 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Succineidae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Succineidae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

875 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 51 sites for Succineidae, 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

32 references

Each of the 55 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. 20 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 Succineidae

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

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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 itSuccineoidea through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beck 1837