Polinices

Polinices is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Polinicinae of the family Naticidae, commonly known as moon snails.

Polinices

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
moon snailPBDB
Sits inside
PolinicinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 246 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 1332 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 1332 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 7 of 1332 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 6 of 1332 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1332 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1332 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1332 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 1332 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 70 of 1332 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 126 of 1332 occurrencesEocene — about 342 of 1332 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 91 of 1332 occurrencesMiocene — about 438 of 1332 occurrencesPliocene — about 134 of 1332 occurrencesPleistocene — about 108 of 1332 occurrences256–247 Mya — about 2 occurrences247–239 Mya — about 7 occurrences239–230 Mya — about 3 occurrences213–205 Mya — about 1 occurrence205–196 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–128 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–119 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences119–111 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences111–102 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences102–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–77 Mya — about 14 occurrences77–68 Mya — about 35 occurrences68–60 Mya — about 79 occurrences60–51 Mya — about 88 occurrences51–43 Mya — about 82 occurrences43–34 Mya — about 231 occurrences34–26 Mya — about 75 occurrences26–17 Mya — about 122 occurrences17–8.5 Mya — about 223 occurrences8.5–0 Mya — about 361 occurrences247 Mya11.7 ka256 Mya0 Mya

1,332 occurrences of Polinices on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1,332 occurrences

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

275 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.68°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.70°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.64°WLa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.62°WCook Mountain — 31.29°N, 86.56°WCook Mountain — 30.53°N, 96.69°WCook Mountain — 31.25°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 31.75°N, 92.97°WCook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 30.90°N, 96.38°WCook Mountain — 30.00°N, 97.14°WCook Mountain — 32.51°N, 92.12°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 93.65°WCook Mountain — 31.49°N, 93.47°WCook Mountain — 31.12°N, 95.90°WCook Mountain — 30.62°N, 96.56°WCook Mountain — 31.20°N, 95.73°WCook Mountain — 30.63°N, 96.54°WCook Mountain — 31.35°N, 95.52°WCook Mountain — 31.11°N, 96.28°WCook Mountain — 30.07°N, 97.08°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.25°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WCercado — 19.47°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.27°WCercado — 19.42°N, 71.08°WCercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WCercado — 18.93°N, 71.62°WMoodys Branch — 32.85°N, 90.41°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.32°WMoodys Branch — 31.88°N, 88.68°WMoodys Branch — 32.30°N, 90.18°WMoodys Branch — 31.84°N, 88.25°WMoodys Branch — 32.01°N, 92.00°WMoodys Branch — 32.11°N, 92.08°WMoodys Branch — 31.82°N, 92.33°WMoodys Branch — 31.67°N, 92.89°WMoodys Branch — 31.78°N, 92.49°WMoodys Branch — 33.96°N, 92.19°WMoodys Branch — 31.97°N, 88.53°WMoodys Branch — 31.63°N, 91.82°WMoodys Branch — 32.98°N, 90.30°WCastilletes — 11.85°N, 71.33°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.34°WCastilletes — 11.85°N, 71.37°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.71°WSanta Susana — 34.26°N, 118.70°WSanta Susana — 34.22°N, 118.76°WSubmeseta — 64.25°S, 56.64°WSubmeseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WSubmeseta — 64.25°S, 56.63°WSubmeseta — 64.26°S, 56.66°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.75°N, 74.98°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WEugene — 44.03°N, 123.10°WEugene — 44.05°N, 123.09°WEugene — 44.04°N, 123.04°WMoreno — 36.99°N, 120.94°WMoreno — 37.28°N, 121.18°WMoreno — 37.24°N, 121.15°WNyalindung — 7.00°S, 106.63°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°EMartinez — 38.06°N, 122.24°WMartinez — 38.21°N, 122.02°WMartinez — 38.05°N, 122.15°WMartinez — 38.02°N, 122.10°WMartinez — 38.90°N, 122.60°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.37°S, 69.05°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.12°S, 68.48°WMonte Leon Fm — 50.23°S, 68.92°WWeches — 30.23°N, 97.52°WWeches — 30.68°N, 96.58°WWeches — 31.21°N, 96.02°WWeches — 31.11°N, 96.28°WWeches — 31.00°N, 96.83°WWeches — 31.59°N, 94.84°WWeches — 31.25°N, 96.12°WWeches — 30.01°N, 97.16°WWeches — 31.22°N, 96.06°WGosport Sand — 31.52°N, 87.90°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WFalun de Jeurs — 48.48°N, 2.23°ETuscahoma — 31.85°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 31.78°N, 87.42°WTuscahoma — 31.94°N, 88.06°WTuscahoma — 32.15°N, 88.02°WTuscahoma — 31.54°N, 87.52°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.60°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 31.50°N, 87.80°WLisbon — 32.32°N, 89.16°WLisbon — 31.53°N, 87.50°WLisbon — 31.82°N, 88.24°WLisbon — 31.55°N, 87.91°WProvidence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.75°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.77°N, 85.15°WKincaid — 31.28°N, 96.98°WKincaid — 30.11°N, 97.32°WKincaid — 30.23°N, 97.52°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 31.36°N, 96.04°WKincaid — 31.37°N, 96.69°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WReklaw — 30.88°N, 95.38°WReklaw — 30.11°N, 97.32°WReklaw — 30.00°N, 97.25°WReklaw — 30.81°N, 96.65°W

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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. 251 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 154 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polinices and its relatives

Miocene

Where Polinices and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,686 taxa

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

281 references

Each of the 1,332 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. 269 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 content2

Picture of Polinices

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPolinicinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Monfort 1810)