Viviparus cariniferus is an extinct species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Viviparidae, the river snails. It lived between the BathonianJ. D. Hudson, J. B. Riding, M. I. Wakefield and W. Walton. 1995. Jurassic Paleosalinities and Brackish-water Communities-A Case Study. Palaios 10(5):392-405 and BartonianA. A. Bosma. 1974. Rodent biostratigraphy of the Eocene-Oligocene transitional strata of the Isle of Wight. Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletins. Special Publication 1:1-113 epochs; although it may have persisted into the Oligocene.
Viviparus cariniferus is often found preserved in Purbeck Marble,Blair J., Blair W. J. & Ramsay N. (eds.) (1991). English medieval industries: craftsmen, techniques, products. A&C Black. page 42. although it has also been found in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
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