Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus

Potamides tricinctus (Brocchi, 1814), a relative of Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus — not Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus itself

Not Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus. This is Potamides tricinctus (Brocchi, 1814), a relative — both are Batillariidae.

Stichting Observation International · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
Potamides (Ptychopotamides)PBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Potamididae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Potamididae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Potamididae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 0 of 13 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 13 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 13 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 13 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.4–1.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 0.6 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.333 Mya – 2.58 Mya23.5 Mya0 Mya

13 occurrences of Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

13 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

Red Crag — 51.97°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 52.75°N, 1.53°EMammaliferous Crag — 52.63°N, 1.35°WSabbie di Asti — 44.90°N, 8.20°ESabbie di Asti — 43.32°N, 11.33°ELillo — 51.25°N, 4.28°E

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The named rock units Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

372 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Potamides (Ptychopotamides) tricinctus, 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

7 references

Each of the 13 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 Potamides tricinctus (Brocchi, 1814)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Stichting Observation International
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 (Ptychopotamides) through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brocchi 1814)