Polystira barretti
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolystiraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- 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.
31 occurrences of Polystira barretti 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
31 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
12 formations
- Bowden Formation · Coastal Group6
- Cantaure Formation5
- Tubará Formation5
- Pirabas Formation3
- Cercado Formation2
- Coatzacoalcos Formation1
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The named rock units Polystira barretti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Polystira barretti and its relatives
MioceneWhere Polystira barretti and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
1,100 taxa- Architectonica nobilis11 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) dariena8 sites
- Conus molis8 sites
- Cancellaria6 sites
- Conus6 sites
- Polinices hepaticus6 sites
- Turritella6 sites
- Anadara5 sites
- Chione (Lirophora) quirosensis5 sites
- Cymatophos5 sites
- Laevicardium serratum5 sites
- Melongena consors5 sites
- Oliva cylindrica5 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis5 sites
- Sphaerocypraea wegeneri5 sites
- Turritella cocoditana5 sites
- Agriopoma (Pitarella) paraguanensis4 sites
- Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis nobilis4 sites
- Arcinella antiquata4 sites
- Clathrodrillia puertocolombiana4 sites
- Conus imitator4 sites
- Cyclinella cyclica4 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymeris) jamaicensis4 sites
- Hindsiclava henekeni4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Polystira barretti, 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
7 references- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions21
- Miocene Mollusca from the Paraguana Peninsula, Venezuela4
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel2
- The Cantaure Formation of the Paraguaná Peninsula1
- Moluscos del Mioceno de la Cuenca Salina del Istmo de Tehuantepec, Mexico1
- Miocene Mollusca of Northern Colombia1
- Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results1
Each of the 31 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 content0
No picture of Polystira barretti 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 Polystira barretti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Polystira barretti 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPolystira through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Guppy 1866)