Pomatias

Pomatias is a genus of small operculate land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Pomatiidae.

Pomatias

Hectonichus · 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
Sits inside
PomatiidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Littorinoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Littorinoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Littorinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesOligocene — about 2 of 28 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 22 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPleistocene — about 3 of 28 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 5 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 5 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–9.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences27.3 Mya11.7 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

28 occurrences of Pomatias 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

28 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

4 formations

Randeck Maar — 48.57°N, 9.53°EBorgloon — 50.80°N, 5.33°EFalun de Saucats — 44.66°N, 0.57°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°E

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The named rock units Pomatias has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pomatias and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pomatias and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

532 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Pomatias, 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

21 references

Each of the 28 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. 9 further references are not listed. 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 Pomatias

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pomatias 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.

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 itPomatiidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stimpson 1860