Potamides lamarcki
Merle, Didier · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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- Sits inside
- PotamidesPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Potamididae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Potamididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Potamididae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Potamides lamarcki on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
8 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
4 formations
- Calcaires de Vacheres Formation2
- Falun d'Ormoy Formation2
- Sable de Vauroux-Saint-Antoine Formation2
- Borgloon Formation · Tongeren Group2
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The named rock units Potamides lamarcki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Potamides lamarcki and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Potamides lamarcki and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Pseudamnicola helicella5 sites
- Acteocina4 sites
- Calyptraea4 sites
- Cordiopsis incrassata4 sites
- Granulolabium plicatum4 sites
- Hydrobia4 sites
- Keepingia gossardii4 sites
- Lentidium (Ajanssenium) nitidum4 sites
- Lucina4 sites
- Mnestia turgidula4 sites
- Odostomia4 sites
- Saxolucina4 sites
- Turboella turbinata4 sites
- Benoistia3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Parvicardium3 sites
- Polymesoda subarata convexa3 sites
- Pteria3 sites
- Abra2 sites
- Aporrhais speciosa2 sites
- Arca sandbergeri2 sites
- Arcopagia2 sites
- Bayania semidecussata2 sites
- Caestocorbula henckeliusiana2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Potamides lamarcki, 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- Biostratigraphie et paleoecologie des gisements types du Stampian de la region d''Etampes (Essonne)4
- The molluscan fauna of the Borgloon Formation in Belgium (Rupelian, Early Oligocene)2
- Nouveaux gisements a micromammiferes et mollusques continentaux dans l'Oligocene moyen du synclinal d'Apt (Vaucluse, sud-est de la France)2
Each of the 8 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 Potamides lamarcki
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Merle, Didier
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Potamides lamarcki 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 itPotamides through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brongniart 1810)