Paosia
No picture of Paosia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Paosia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudomelaniidaePBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 42 million years on record.
The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 132.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
56 occurrences of Paosia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
56 occurrencesThese 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
15 formations
- Redding Formation · Pacheco Group24
- Budden Canyon Formation6
- Agrio Formation · Mendoza Group4
- Antelope Formation · Great Valley Group3
- Chico Formation3
- Sidney Island Formation2
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The named rock units Paosia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paosia and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Paosia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
212 taxa- Anchura (Helicaulax) condoniana11 sites
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli8 sites
- Natica (Gyrodes) conradiana8 sites
- Biplica isoplicata7 sites
- Glycymerita veatchii7 sites
- Ostrea malleiformis7 sites
- Pterotrigonia klamathonia7 sites
- Carota dilleri6 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida5 sites
- Glycymeris pacifica5 sites
- Atresius liratus4 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana4 sites
- Tenea4 sites
- Acteon politus3 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) melhaseana3 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) youngi3 sites
- Drilluta sicca3 sites
- Hypophylloceras (Neophylloceras) ramosum3 sites
- Inoceramus teshioensis3 sites
- Latiala californica3 sites
- Latiala nodosa3 sites
- Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana3 sites
- Perissitys cretacea3 sites
- Tetragonites glabrus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Paosia, 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
8 references- The pseudomelaniid gastropod Paosia from the marine Cretaceous of the Pacific Slope of North America and a review of the age and paleobiogeography of the genus25
- Mid-Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian) biostratigraphy of northern California10
- Upper Cretaceous of the Pacific Coast9
- New records of marine gastropods from the Lower Cretaceous of west-central Argentina5
- Mollusca of the Cretaceous Bald Hills Formation of California3
- Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) lithostratigraphy and biochronology, southern Gulf Islands, British Columbia, and northern San Juan Islands, Washington State2
- The crinoid Marsupites in the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group, British Columbia: resolution of the Santonian-Campanian boundary in the North Pacific Province1
- Geology of Reef Ridge Coalinga district California1
Each of the 56 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. 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 content0
No picture of Paosia was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Paosia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paosia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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
What may have been alongside itPseudomelaniidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Böhm 1895