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Poleumita ✝

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Description

Poleumita is an extinct genus of medium-sized sea snails, fossil marine gastropods in the family Euomphalidae. This genus is known from the Silurian period.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poleumita, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4599512	https://www.gbif.org/species/4599512
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	8491	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=8491

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Euomphalidae : Poleumita

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Euomphalina : Euomphalidae : Poleumita

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Eogastropoda	Ponder and Lindberg 1996
order	Euomphalina	de Koninck 1881
superfamily	Euomphaloidea
family	Euomphalidae	White 1877
genus	Poleumita	Clarke & Ruedemann 1903

Scientific Name

Poleumita Clarke & Ruedemann, 1903

Name Published In

Mem. N. York Mus., 5

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Poleumita	genus	belongs to Poleumitidae	stated with evidence	Wenz, 1938
Poleumita	genus	belongs to Euomphaloidea	stated with evidence	Knight et al., 1960
Poleumita	genus	belongs to Euomphalidae	stated without evidence	Morris and Cleevely, 1981
Poleumita	genus	belongs to Euomphalidae	stated with evidence	Linsley and Kier, 1984
Poleumita	genus	belongs to Euomphalina	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Poleumita	genus	belongs to Euomphalidae	stated with evidence	Bouchet et al., 2005

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

443 - 436 Ma
Silurian

Last Recorded Appearance

408 - 393 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian

Motility

stationary (based on Euomphalidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Euomphalidae)

Ecospace Comments

BODY SIZE: Data from Knight et al. (1960).

Taphonomy

minor ribbing

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. M. Clarke and R. Ruedemann. 1903. Guelph fauna in the state of New York. New York State Museum Memoirs 5:1-100

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poleumita

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Cyclonema haliburtoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Euomphalus discors species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euomphalus rugosus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	433 Ma Silurian	427 Ma Silurian
Euomphalus subsulcatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Euomphalus walmstedti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	431 Ma Silurian	427 Ma Silurian
Oriostoma alatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	433 Ma Silurian	433 Ma Silurian
Pleuronotus semiplanus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	431 Ma Silurian	431 Ma Silurian
Poleumita anabarica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Poleumita discors ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		26	439 Ma Silurian	426 Ma Silurian
Poleumita hudsonica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	439 Ma Silurian	439 Ma Silurian
Poleumita incarinatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	443 Ma Silurian	443 Ma Silurian
Poleumita mashkovae ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Poleumita mckenzica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Poleumita prosseri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Poleumita scamnata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	426 Ma Silurian	426 Ma Silurian
Poleumita subsulcatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Poleumita tranversa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Poleumita vernonensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	427 Ma Silurian	427 Ma Silurian
Polytropis durhamensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	427 Ma Silurian	427 Ma Silurian
Straparollus crenulatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	431 Ma Silurian	427 Ma Silurian
Straparollus incarinata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Straparollus mashkovae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Trochus gyrans ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	433 Ma Silurian	433 Ma Silurian
Turbo myeri ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Turbo octavia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	439 Ma Silurian	426 Ma Silurian

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1881	Polytropis de Koninck
1897	Polytropis Ulrich p. 1043
1903	Poleumita Clarke and Ruedemann pp. 59 - 60
1905	Polytropina Donald p. 575
1938	Poleumita Wenz pp. 43, 60, 208
1960	Poleumita Knight et al. p. 192
1981	Poleumita Morris and Cleevely
1984	Poleumita Linsley and Kier
2002	Poleumita Sepkoski, Jr.
2005	Poleumita Bouchet et al. pp. 136, 241

References

Clarke J. M., Ruedemann R. (1903) Guelph fauna in the state of New York, New York State Museum Memoirs 5, 1-100

de Koninck L. G. Faune du calcaire carbonifère de la Belgique, 3e partie, Gastéropodes, Musée Royale d’Historie Naturelle Belgique Annales, Série Paléontoloque 6, 1-170

Donald J. G. (1905) On some Gastropoda from the Silurian rocks of Llangadock (Caemarthenshire), Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 61 5, 567-578

Knight J. B., Cox L. R., et al (1960) Systematic descriptions, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Mollusca I 1, 169-339

Morris N.J., Cleevely R. J. (1981) Phanerotinus cristatus (Phillips) and the nature of euomphalacean gastropods, Molluscans, Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 35 3, 195-212

Linsley R. M., Kier W.M. (1984) The Paragastropoda: a proposal for a new class of Paleozoic Mollusca, Malacologia 25 1, 241-254

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Bouchet P., Rocroi J.-P, et al (2005) A nomenclator and classification of gastropod family-group names, Malacologia 47 1-2, 1-368

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Mem. N. York Mus., 5 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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