Gourmya

Debra Baker · 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
- CerithiinaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithiidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 61 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 11.7 ka.
14 occurrences of Gourmya 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
14 occurrences- Paleocene7%
- Eocene14%
- Oligocene21%
- Miocene43%
- Pleistocene14%
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
7 formations
- Calcaire de Mons Formation1
- Falun de Saucats Formation1
- Ghubbarah Formation1
- Warak Formation1
- Eptachorion Formation1
- Nari Formation1
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The named rock units Gourmya has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gourmya and its relatives
MioceneWhere Gourmya and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
348 taxa- Arca2 sites
- Arcopagia2 sites
- Cidaris2 sites
- Patella2 sites
- Tibia2 sites
- Turricula2 sites
- Tympanotonos2 sites
- Vexillum2 sites
- Acanthocyathus grayi1 site
- Acar1 site
- Aclis1 site
- Acmaea simplex1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Adansonella1 site
- Aesculus hippocastanum1 site
- Alvania (Arsenia)1 site
- Amaurellina1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Ammonia1 site
- Ampullina1 site
- Angaria1 site
- Anomalina1 site
- Anomia talahabensis1 site
- Arcoperna1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gourmya, 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
11 references- Ages of Miocene Fossil Localities In The Northern Kutai Basin (east Kalimantan, Indonesia)2
- Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific.2
- Über eine Eocänfaunula von Ostbosnien und einige Eocänfossilien der Herzegowina2
- Pleistocene mollusc assemblage in the slightly raised atoll lagoon of Niau (Tuamotu, French Polynesia)1
- Types of Cenozoic Mollusca from Java in the Martin Collection of Naturalis1
- Oligocene gastropod faunas for the Eastern Mediterranean (Mesohellenic Trough/Greece and Esfahan-Sirjan Basin/Central Iran)1
- Révision des Gastropoda (Mollusca) du stratotype de L'Aquitanien (Miocéne inf.) site de Saucats "Lariey", Gironde, France1
- La stratigraphie du remplissage de la Grotte du Vallonnet.1
- Miocene molluscs from Muara Kobun and Pulu Senumpah, Sangkulirang Bay, northern Kutai (East Borneo)1
- Revision des Gastropoda du Danien et du Montien de la Belgique. I, Les Gastropoda du Calcaire de Mons1
- Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata1
Each of the 14 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. 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 content1

Picture of Gourmya
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Debra Baker
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Gourmya 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 itCerithiinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fischer 1884)