Pomatiopsidae

Fred A. Lewis, Yung-san Liang, Nithya Raghavan & Matty Knight · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikidata/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
- TruncatelloideaPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 12 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 56 Mya.
40 occurrences of Pomatiopsidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
40 occurrences- Late Cretaceous70%
- Paleocene30%
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
5 formations
- Jiaozhou Formation24
- Mingshui Formation8
- Châlons-sur-Vesle Formation4
- Bianqiao Formation2
- Calcaire de Mons Formation1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Pomatiopsidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pomatiopsidae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pomatiopsidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
266 taxa- Valvata jiaolaiensis18 sites
- Tricula8 sites
- Ampullina2 sites
- Bouryia distensa2 sites
- Bouryia minor2 sites
- Costhyrella2 sites
- Cyathopoma pingyiensis2 sites
- Globularia2 sites
- Hydrobia (Hydrobia) cylindracea2 sites
- Hydrobia (Peringia)2 sites
- Lapparentia2 sites
- Melanopsis2 sites
- Physa2 sites
- Sassia2 sites
- Sigmesalia2 sites
- Tibia2 sites
- Truncatella jiaozhouensis2 sites
- Truncatelloidea2 sites
- Vicinocerithium2 sites
- Acar1 site
- Aclis1 site
- Acmaea simplex1 site
- Acrocoelum1 site
- Acteon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Pomatiopsidae, 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- A latest Cretaceous gastropod fauna from the Jiaolai Basin of east Asia24
- Freshwater gastropods across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in the Songliao Basin, north-east China8
- Le genre Bouryia Cossmann, 1888 (Gastropoda: Littorinimorpha: Pomatiopsidae ?) des sables thanétiens (Paléocène) du bassin de Paris5
- Non-marine gastropods from the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition in the Pingyi Basin, eastern China2
- Revision des Gastropoda du Danien et du Montien de la Belgique. I, Les Gastropoda du Calcaire de Mons1
Each of the 40 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 content1

Picture of Pomatiopsidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Fred A. Lewis, Yung-san Liang, Nithya Raghavan & Matty Knight
- Licence
- CC BY 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Pomatiopsidae was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTruncatelloidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stimpson 1865