Leiopyrga
Leiopyrga is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
R. Tate · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
- UmboniinaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Trochidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Trochidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Trochidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Leiopyrga on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene40%
- Pliocene40%
- Pleistocene20%
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
3 formations
- Ascot Formation2
- Muddy Creek Formation2
- Tims Thicket/Kooallup Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Leiopyrga has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Leiopyrga and its relatives
MioceneWhere Leiopyrga and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
180 taxa- Bedeva paivae3 sites
- Bittium3 sites
- Glycymeris3 sites
- Hemidonax3 sites
- Mactra3 sites
- Natica gualteriana3 sites
- Placamen3 sites
- Tawera3 sites
- Acteocina2 sites
- Alaba2 sites
- Arcopsis2 sites
- Bedeva2 sites
- Belloliva2 sites
- Carditidae2 sites
- Clanculus2 sites
- Conus2 sites
- Epicodakia2 sites
- Haliotis2 sites
- Hypotrochus monachus2 sites
- Lamarcka ventricosa2 sites
- Leionucula2 sites
- Limopsis2 sites
- Macomona basedowi2 sites
- Nassarius2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Leiopyrga, 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
3 references- Pliocene-Pleistocene coastal events and history along the western margin of Australia2
- Catalogue of Australian Tertiary Mollusca (except chitons)2
- New Pleistocene and Holocene stratigraphic units in the Yalgorup Plain area, southern Swan Costal Plain1
Each of the 5 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 Leiopyrga
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- R. Tate
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Leiopyrga 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Leiopyrga”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itUmboniinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adams 1863