Polinices eminulus

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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 23 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
39 occurrences of Polinices eminulus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
39 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
13 formations
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group9
- Porters Creek Formation · Midway Group7
- Naheola Formation · Midway Group4
- Tuscahoma Formation · Wilcox Group4
- Seguin Formation3
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation · Wilcox Group3
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The named rock units Polinices eminulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Polinices eminulus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Polinices eminulus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
778 taxa- Turritella20 sites
- Athleta (Volutocorbis)13 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)12 sites
- Glycymeris12 sites
- Natica12 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) ovula12 sites
- Dentalium11 sites
- Latirus11 sites
- Pitar11 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta11 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus10 sites
- Levifusus10 sites
- Orthosurcula10 sites
- Agaronia9 sites
- Ancilla staminea9 sites
- Callista (Callista) perovata9 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta9 sites
- Crepidula lirata9 sites
- Cucullaea9 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina9 sites
- Haustator carinata9 sites
- Linga (Cavilinga) pomilia9 sites
- Mesalia vetusta9 sites
- Neverita limula9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Polinices eminulus, 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
9 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals14
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda6
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama5
- Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain4
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region4
- Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages3
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene Mollusks of the Southern and Eastern United States Part II. Gastropoda1
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina1
- New Eocene species from Alabama1
Each of the 39 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 Polinices eminulus
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No 3D scan of Polinices eminulus 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 PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)