Polinices shumardianus
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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 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
16 occurrences of Polinices shumardianus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
16 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Ladd Formation11
- Chatsworth Formation2
- Cabrillo Formation2
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group1
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The named rock units Polinices shumardianus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Polinices shumardianus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Polinices shumardianus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
104 taxa- Glycymerita veatchii10 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) youngi8 sites
- Crassatella lomana7 sites
- Lysis suciensis7 sites
- Pterotrigonia evansana7 sites
- Turritella chicoensis7 sites
- Paraesa lens6 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) demessa5 sites
- Anchura phaba5 sites
- Nanonavis breweriana5 sites
- Trinacria cor5 sites
- Ampullina packardi4 sites
- Biplica obliqua4 sites
- Etea angulata4 sites
- Perissitys brevirostris4 sites
- Tenea inflata4 sites
- Turritella ossa4 sites
- Anomia lineata3 sites
- Cymbophora ashburnerii3 sites
- Cymbophora suciensis3 sites
- Dentalium (Entalis) whiteavesi3 sites
- Pentzia hilgardi3 sites
- Volutoderma averillii3 sites
- Volutoderma santana3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Polinices shumardianus, 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- Upper Cretaceous formations and faunas of southern California10
- Late Cretaceous paleoecology of the Holz Shale, Orange County, California2
- The Paleontology of the Cabrillo Formation2
- Type And Referred Specimens of Fossil Invertebrata in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Supplement 3: Mollusca Formerly Conserved at the University of California, Los Angeles1
- Geology of Reef Ridge Coalinga district California1
Each of the 16 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 content0
No picture of Polinices shumardianus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Polinices shumardianus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1864)