Poirieria subcristata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PoirieriaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Poirieria subcristata on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
4 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Poirieria subcristata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Poirieria subcristata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Poirieria subcristata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
136 taxa- Acteon3 sites
- Amygdalum simplex3 sites
- Cochlespira gyrata3 sites
- Euspira glaucinoides3 sites
- Haustator dixoni3 sites
- Odostomia3 sites
- Pitar (Calpitaria) sulcatarius3 sites
- Priscoficus smithi3 sites
- Seila mundula3 sites
- Sigatica hantoniensis3 sites
- Tibia (Eotibia) sublucida3 sites
- Anomia anomialis2 sites
- Antalis constricta2 sites
- Aporrhais clarendonensis2 sites
- Aporrhais sowerbii2 sites
- Arctica planata2 sites
- Bathytoma granata2 sites
- Bonellitia laeviuscula2 sites
- Bonellitia subevulsa2 sites
- Cantharus (Eocantharus) morrisii2 sites
- Cerithiella elongata2 sites
- Cimomia imperialis2 sites
- Crassiscala subterranea2 sites
- Cultellus affinis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Poirieria subcristata, 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
3 references- The Early Eocene London Clay Formation mollusc fauna of the former Bursledon Brickworks, Lower Swanwick, Hampshire2
- The Early Paleogene muricids (Mollusca, Neogastropoda) from the Oiching beds (Haunsberg area, Salzburg, Austria): revision and addition to the knowledge of the evolution of the Paleocene and Lower Eocene Foirieria1
- The London Clay of Earldoms Clay Pit, Whiteparish, Wiltshire1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Poirieria subcristata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Poirieria subcristata was found in Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itPoirieria through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1850)