Poirieria

Poirieria is a genus of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Pagodulinae of the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

Poirieria

GrahamBould · Public Domain · 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
Sits inside
MuricinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 129 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 180 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 10 of 180 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 24 of 180 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 180 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 110 of 180 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 25 of 180 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 180 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 5 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 3 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 2 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 15 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 44 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 23 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–9.8 Mya — about 9 occurrences9.8–7.4 Mya — about 11 occurrences7.4–4.9 Mya — about 8 occurrences4.9–2.5 Mya — about 22 occurrences2.5–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences66 Mya774 ka74 Mya0 Mya

180 occurrences of Poirieria on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

180 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

49 formations

Chipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.46°N, 85.16°WChipola — 30.26°N, 85.17°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WGatun — 9.39°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.27°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.28°N, 79.97°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°ELondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.26°N, 85.17°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 19.51°N, 71.19°WGurabo — 19.40°N, 70.72°WPorters Creek — 32.03°N, 87.57°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.28°WPorters Creek — 31.92°N, 87.08°WPunta Gavilan — 11.45°N, 68.87°WOnzole — 0.97°N, 79.57°WOnzole — 0.95°N, 79.74°WWaihao Greensand — 44.78°S, 171.17°EBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 142.02°EAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.62°N, 64.00°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WJackson Bluff — 30.47°N, 84.99°WJackson Bluff — 30.42°N, 85.17°WNaseby Greensand — 45.02°S, 170.12°ECantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WParaje Solo — 18.02°N, 94.47°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WSables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°ECalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°ECalcaire de Mons — 50.45°N, 3.93°EBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°W

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The named rock units Poirieria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Poirieria and its relatives

Miocene

Where Poirieria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,603 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Poirieria, and this reads all 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

41 references

Each of the 180 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. 29 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 content1

Picture of Poirieria

Credit
GrahamBould
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Poirieria was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itMuricinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jousseaume 1880)