Liopeplum

Liopeplum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AthletinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 137 of 137 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 137 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences83–83 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences77–77 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–74 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences72–72 Mya — about 10 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 14 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 14 occurrences70–70 Mya — about 14 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 14 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 14 occurrences68–68 Mya — about 14 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 14 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 14 occurrences66–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences83.6 Mya72.2 Mya86.2 Mya65.5 Mya

137 occurrences of Liopeplum on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

137 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

16 formations

Providence — 31.87°N, 86.08°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WProvidence — 31.96°N, 85.45°WEscondido — 29.27°N, 99.05°WEscondido — 29.16°N, 99.47°WEscondido — 29.10°N, 99.86°WEscondido — 29.11°N, 99.82°WEscondido — 28.92°N, 100.27°WEscondido — 28.72°N, 100.48°WEscondido — 28.55°N, 100.33°WEscondido — 28.52°N, 100.31°WEscondido — 28.26°N, 100.27°WRipley — 34.49°N, 89.01°WRipley — 35.23°N, 88.61°WRipley — 34.73°N, 88.95°WRipley — 32.05°N, 86.78°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WOwl Creek — 34.17°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 34.82°N, 88.88°WOwl Creek — 34.88°N, 88.87°WOwl Creek — 34.45°N, 89.00°WOwl Creek — 36.98°N, 89.88°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.05°N, 96.41°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChiwapa — 34.38°N, 88.98°WChiwapa — 34.35°N, 88.92°WChiwapa — 34.19°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPeedee — 33.89°N, 79.41°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WBlack Creek — 35.46°N, 77.68°WKemp Clay — 30.23°N, 97.52°WCoffee Sand — 34.26°N, 88.70°WMexcala — 17.77°N, 99.98°WWolfe City — 30.27°N, 97.74°WUmzamba — 31.10°S, 30.17°EGerharsreit — 47.81°N, 12.65°E

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The named rock units Liopeplum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Liopeplum and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Liopeplum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

758 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Liopeplum, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

15 references

Each of the 137 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Liopeplum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Liopeplum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAthletinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1890