Lacunaria striata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LacunariaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Naticidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Naticidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Naticidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 45 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
11 occurrences of Lacunaria striata on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
11 occurrencesThese 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
6 formations
- Martinez Formation5
- Santa Susana Formation2
- Lodo Formation1
- Tepetate Formation1
- Panoche Formation · Great Valley Group1
- Las Virgenes Formation1
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The named rock units Lacunaria striata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lacunaria striata and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Lacunaria striata and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
203 taxa- Dentalium cooperi8 sites
- Cucullaea mathewsonii7 sites
- Glycymerita major6 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii6 sites
- Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis6 sites
- Polinices hornii5 sites
- Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus5 sites
- Ringicula (Ringicula) pinguis5 sites
- Brachysphingus sinuatus4 sites
- Crassatella4 sites
- Flabellum cuneiforme4 sites
- Meretrix stantoni4 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum4 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) alaeformis4 sites
- Paphia clarki4 sites
- Pholadomya (Pholadomya) nasuta4 sites
- Retipirula crassitesta4 sites
- Scaphander (Mirascapha) costatus4 sites
- Tellina (Saulella) undulifera4 sites
- Urosyca caudata4 sites
- Amauropsis martinezensis3 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii3 sites
- Lyria hannibali3 sites
- Mesalia martinezensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Lacunaria striata, 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- Fauna of the Martinez Eocene of California4
- A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California2
- Unpublished taxonomic backbone for Eastern Pacific Invertebrate Communities of the Cenozoic (EPICC) Thematic Collections Network1
- Age, Correlation and Possible Tethyan Affinities of Mollusks from the Lodo Formation of Fresno County, California1
- Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico1
- Geology of Reef Ridge Coalinga district California1
- Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California1
Each of the 11 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 Lacunaria striata
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Lacunaria striata 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.
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What may have been alongside itLacunaria through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb 1869)