Polystira opulenta
No picture of Polystira opulenta 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 Polystira opulenta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PolystiraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Polystira opulenta on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Polystira opulenta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Polystira opulenta and its relatives
MioceneWhere Polystira opulenta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Conus5 sites
- Ficus carriacouensis5 sites
- Oliva delata5 sites
- Ostrea5 sites
- Cymatophos glareosus4 sites
- Calliostoma3 sites
- Conus consobrinus3 sites
- Conus imitator3 sites
- Crucibulum3 sites
- Fissidentalium uscarianum3 sites
- Oliva valens3 sites
- Paraborsonia varicosa3 sites
- Polinices3 sites
- Strioterebrum3 sites
- Architectonica (Architectonica) nobilis karsteni2 sites
- Bursa rugosa2 sites
- Calliostoma tarltonense2 sites
- Caryophylliidae2 sites
- Chlamys2 sites
- Conus aemulator2 sites
- Conus talis2 sites
- Dentalium2 sites
- Echinophoria famulans2 sites
- Eucrassatella2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Polystira opulenta, 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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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
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No picture of Polystira opulenta 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 Polystira opulenta, 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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What may have been alongside itPolystira through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jung 1971