Lahillia wilckensi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LahilliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Cardioidea
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Cardioidea
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cardioidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
27 occurrences of Lahillia wilckensi 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
27 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Lahillia wilckensi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lahillia wilckensi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Lahillia wilckensi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
141 taxa- Polinices (Polinices) subtenuis22 sites
- Eurhomalea newtoni18 sites
- Struthioptera camachoi15 sites
- Austroficopsis wimani14 sites
- Eurhomalea antarctica14 sites
- Sudonassarius antarctohimaleos14 sites
- Austrobuccinum tuberosum13 sites
- Saxolucina sharmani13 sites
- Austrotoma oliveroi12 sites
- Cucullaea raea12 sites
- Eucrassatella wilckensi12 sites
- Antarctodarwinella nordenskjoldi11 sites
- Austroficopsis seymourensis11 sites
- Colposigma euthenia11 sites
- Sigapatella disapicula10 sites
- Australoneilo rossi9 sites
- Antarctodarwinella ellioti8 sites
- Conomitra iredalei8 sites
- Periploma topei8 sites
- Austrosullivania lata7 sites
- Cyclorismina marwicki7 sites
- Mactra irizari7 sites
- Nucula (Leionucula) nova7 sites
- Turbonilla (Ptycheulimella) cooki7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Lahillia wilckensi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 27 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Lahillia wilckensi
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- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lahillia wilckensi 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 itLahillia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zinsmeister 1984