Polinices

Searched as Polinices subclausa lavelana. The Paleobiology Database treats Polinices as the accepted name.

Polinices is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Polinicinae of the family Naticidae, commonly known as moon snails.

Polinices

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Also called
moon snailPBDB
Sits inside
PolinicinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 4 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.9–9.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.5–9.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.1–8.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.7–8.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.3–7.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.9–7.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.6–7.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.2–6.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.8–6.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.4–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.6–5.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16.5 Mya4.8 Mya

4 occurrences of Polinices 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

4 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

2 formations

Urumaco — 11.22°N, 70.25°WCaujarao — 11.45°N, 69.57°W

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The named rock units Polinices has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Polinices and its relatives

Miocene

Where Polinices and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,688 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 766 sites for Polinices, and this reads 240 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

1 reference

Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content3

Picture of Polinices

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
polinices sp. · MST:PALEO:MST-SP-2153

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itPolinicinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Monfort 1810)