Polinices
Searched as Albula sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Polinices as the accepted name.
No picture of Polinices was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Polinices itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Polinices, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolinicinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 89 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 0 Mya.
73 occurrences of Polinices on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
73 occurrences- Late Cretaceous16%
- Paleocene3%
- Eocene56%
- Oligocene7%
- Miocene14%
- Pliocene1%
- Pleistocene1%
- Holocene1%
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
35 formations
- Tallahatta Formation · Claiborne Group8
- London Clay Formation · Thames Group3
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group3
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group2
- Elmore Formation · Bracklesham Group2
- Tar Heel Formation · Black Creek Group2
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The named rock units Polinices has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Polinices and its relatives
EoceneWhere Polinices and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
3,686 taxa- Glycymeris55 sites
- Turritella46 sites
- Calyptraea40 sites
- Lucina39 sites
- Cylichna37 sites
- Bittium36 sites
- Corbula36 sites
- Pteria36 sites
- Tellina36 sites
- Ctena34 sites
- Odostomia33 sites
- Cadulus32 sites
- Lentidium (Ajanssenium) nitidum32 sites
- Parvicardium32 sites
- Parvilucina32 sites
- Cordiopsis incrassata31 sites
- Cytherea (Callista) splendida31 sites
- Granulolabium plicatum31 sites
- Lunatia31 sites
- Turboella turbinata30 sites
- Veneridae30 sites
- Tivelina29 sites
- Paralucinella undulata28 sites
- Tympanotonos28 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 766 sites for Polinices, and this reads 240 of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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
40 references- Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths11
- Geology and biostratigraphy of the Potomac River Cliffs at Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia4
- The Selsey Division (Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, (Hants)4
- La faune ichthyologique de l'Ypresien de la Belgique4
- Otolithes de poissons du paléocanyon de saubrigues (chattien à langhien), aquitaine méridionale, France3
- The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, part VIII, the fishes3
- Ricerche sui Pesci Fossili di Chiavòn (Strati di Sotzka -- Miocene Inferiore)3
- Early Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA2
- Early Oligocene (Rupelian) fishes (Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes) from the Ashley Formation (Cooper Group) of South Carolina, USA2
- Middle and late Eocene fish otoliths from the eastern and southern USA2
- The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstatten2
- Integrated Paleoecology and Marine Vertebrate Fauna of the Stone City Formation (Middle Eocene), Brazos River Section, Texas2
Each of the 73 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. 28 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- valeriogaleone
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Polinices was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Polinices itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Polinices, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Röding 1798