Polinices peselephanti

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- 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 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.
15 occurrences of Polinices peselephanti 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
15 occurrences- Miocene67%
- Pliocene10%
- Pleistocene23%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Polinices peselephanti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Polinices peselephanti and its relatives
MioceneWhere Polinices peselephanti and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
147 taxa- Conus3 sites
- Conus arenatus3 sites
- Tritia3 sites
- Ancilla (Sparella) cinnamomea2 sites
- Arca imbricata arabica2 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata2 sites
- Cerithium2 sites
- Chama2 sites
- Circe corrugata2 sites
- Codakia tigerina2 sites
- Conus (Leptoconus) amadis2 sites
- Conus generalis2 sites
- Divaricella ornata2 sites
- Duplicaria duplicata2 sites
- Erosaria eburnea2 sites
- Erosaria turdus2 sites
- Glycymeris pectunculus2 sites
- Mimachlamys senatoria2 sites
- Natica2 sites
- Nerita (Theliostyla) albicilla2 sites
- Plicatula plicata2 sites
- Rhinoclavis (Rhinoclavis) fasciata2 sites
- Strombus (Gibberulus) gibberulus2 sites
- Tibia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Polinices peselephanti, 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
5 references- Milankovitch 41 000-year cycles in lithofaciesa and molluscan content in the tropical Middle Miocene Nyalindung Formation, Jawa, Indonesia10
- Molluschi delle spiagge emerse del Mar Rosso e dell'Oceano Indiano, introduzione e parte I (gasteropodi) [Mollusks from raised beaches bordering the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, introduction and part I (gastropods)]2
- Preliminary notes on fossil records of East Malaysia and Brunei1
- Mollusques Pleistocenes de la Cote Francaise des Somalis [Pleistocene molluscs from French Somaliland]1
- A report on a collection of Cainozoic fossils from the oil-fields of Papua1
Each of the 15 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 peselephanti
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Polinices peselephanti 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Link 1807)