Potamides (Potamidopsis) californica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Potamides (Potamidopsis)PBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Potamididae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Potamididae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Potamididae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Potamides (Potamidopsis) californica on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
7 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Potamides (Potamidopsis) californica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Potamides (Potamidopsis) californica and its relatives
EoceneWhere Potamides (Potamidopsis) californica and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Acutostrea idriaensis6 sites
- Tellina (Angulus) joaquinensis6 sites
- Loxotrema turritum5 sites
- Neotrapezium californicum5 sites
- Pelecyora aequilateralis5 sites
- Pyrgulifera lajollaensis4 sites
- Spirocrypta inornata4 sites
- Tympanotonos (Tympanotonos) californicus4 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) globosa3 sites
- Tellina (Angulus) domenginensis3 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) morsei2 sites
- Crommium andersoni2 sites
- Cuneocorbula torreyensis2 sites
- Melanatria markleyensis2 sites
- Corbicula jestesi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Potamides (Potamidopsis) californica, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 New Middle Eocene potamidid gastropod from brackish-marine deposits, Southern California5
- Middle Eocene brackish-marine mollusks from the Matilija Sandstone at Matilija Hot Springs, Ventura County, Southern California2
Each of the 7 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
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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 itPotamides (Potamidopsis) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Squires 1991