Polinices stanislasmeunieri

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolinicesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Polinices
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Polinices
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Polinices
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
77 occurrences of Polinices stanislasmeunieri on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
77 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
11 formations
- Gatun Formation45
- Springvale Formation12
- Tubará Formation6
- Rio Banano Formation3
- Zorritos Formation2
- Caujarao Formation2
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The named rock units Polinices stanislasmeunieri 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.
Polinices stanislasmeunieri and its relatives
MioceneWhere Polinices stanislasmeunieri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
608 taxa- Anadara18 sites
- Stigmaulax guppiana18 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis17 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis17 sites
- Turritella (Broderiptella) mimetes16 sites
- Architectonica nobilis15 sites
- Macrocallista maculata15 sites
- Strioterebrum spiriferum15 sites
- Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum14 sites
- Dentalium (Dentalium)14 sites
- Polystira14 sites
- Cyclostremiscus (Ponocyclus) pentagonus13 sites
- Lirophora (Panchione) mactropsis12 sites
- Naticarius12 sites
- Turritella (Bactrospira) altilira12 sites
- Anadara (Rasia) dariensis11 sites
- Caryocorbula (Caryocorbula)11 sites
- Conus molis11 sites
- Gordanops baranoanus11 sites
- Volvarina leander11 sites
- Antillophos candeanus10 sites
- Bellucina actinus10 sites
- Natica bolus10 sites
- Naticarius canrena10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Polinices stanislasmeunieri, 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
15 references- Geology and Paleontology of Canal Zone and adjoining parts of Panama.25
- Miocene and Pliocene mollusks from Trinidad11
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions10
- Spatial and stratigraphic variation in marine paleoenvironments in the Late Miocene Gatun Formation, Isthmus of Panama7
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum Basel5
- Marine Miocene and related deposits of North Colombia4
- Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy3
- The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica3
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel2
- Upper Miocene Mollusca from Springvale, Trinidad, British West Indies2
- Southern Caribbean Neogene palaebiogeography revisisted. New data from the Pliocene of Cubagua, Venezuela1
- Naticidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda) from the Neogene of northwestern Ecuador1
Each of the 77 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. 3 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.
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No 3D scan of Polinices stanislasmeunieri 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.
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What may have been alongside itPolinices through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Maury 1917)