Polinices susanaensis

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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 3.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
11 occurrences of Polinices susanaensis 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
11 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Polinices susanaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Polinices susanaensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Polinices susanaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
126 taxa- Glycimeris major7 sites
- Crassatella5 sites
- Cucullaea mathewsonii5 sites
- Dentalium cooperi5 sites
- Ringicula (Ringicula) pinguis5 sites
- Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis5 sites
- Calyptraea diegoana4 sites
- Macrocallista caryi3 sites
- Mesalia martinezensis3 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum3 sites
- Ostrea3 sites
- Pitar simiensis3 sites
- Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus3 sites
- Tellina (Angulus) simiensis3 sites
- Tellina (Saulella) undulifera3 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa2 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) susanaensis2 sites
- Brachysphingus sinuatus2 sites
- Bruetia traski2 sites
- Cidaris2 sites
- Claibornites (Codalucina) muirensis2 sites
- Crassatella branneri2 sites
- Eutrephoceras stephensoni2 sites
- Heteroterma trochoidea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Polinices susanaensis, 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
2 references- A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California10
- Age, Correlation and Possible Tethyan Affinities of Mollusks from the Lodo Formation of Fresno County, California1
Each of the 11 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 content1

Picture of Polinices susanaensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Polinices susanaensis 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. Nelson 1925