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Limnaea

Taxonomy
Limnaea was named by Lamarck (1799).

Synonymy list
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genusLimnaeaLamarck 1799

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Limnaea attenuata Hislop 1859
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†Limnaea telankhediensis Hislop 1859
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†Limnaea oviformis Hislop 1859
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Limnaea auricularia Linnaeus 1758
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Subg. Limnaea (Limnophysa) Fitzinger 1833
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†Limnaea spina Hislop 1859
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†Limnaea maxima Stearns 1906
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Berriasian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 143.10000 to 0.01170 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 137.05 Ma

Collections (48 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Berriasian143.1 - 137.05United Kingdom (England) L. sp. (77058)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0India (Maharashtra) L. sp. (58102)
Ypresian - Lutetian56.0 - 41.03France (Languedoc-Roussillon Region) Gastropoda indet. (31717)
Late/Upper Eocene37.71 - 33.9United Kingdom (England) L. candata, L. longiscata (40887) L. longiscata (40042 40096 40099 40102 40298 40300 40357 40412 40428 40441 40538 40852 40859 40860 40861 40862 40880 40890 40893) L. longiscata, L. pereger (40295) L. obovata (39675) L. pereger, L. longiscata (40845) L. sp. (39236 39249 39250 39292 39299 39662 39664 39677 39838 40268 40269 40421) L. sp., L. cornea (40267)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9United Kingdom (England) L. longiscata (27663) L. longiscata, L. fusiformis, L. columellaris, L. pyramidalis, L. minima, L. strigosa, L. elodes (39643)
Chattian27.3 - 23.04Switzerland (Canton Solothurn) L. subovata, L. pachygaster (182805)
Burdigalian20.45 - 15.98Spain (Valencia) L. sp. (40031)
Hemingfordian - Barstovian18.5 - 12.5USA (Oregon) L. maxima (234344)
MN 613.82 - 12.75Portugal (Santarém) L. sp. (38137)
Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene3.6 - 0.774United Kingdom (England) L. auricularia (84765)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.58 - 0.774Germany (Baden-Wuerttemberg) L. sp. (50274)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial)0.129 - 0.0117Mexico (Mexico) L. sp. (93639)