Liopistha

Liopistha

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PoromyidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Poromyidae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Poromyidae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Poromyidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 23 of 283 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 260 of 283 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 283 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–117 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 4 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 3 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 3 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 6 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 9 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 9 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 10 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 18 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 18 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 4 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 3 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 3 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 5 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 6 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 6 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 6 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 6 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 6 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 37 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 45 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 45 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 19 occurrences119.57 Mya72.2 Mya123 Mya65 Mya

283 occurrences of Liopistha 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

283 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

54 formations

Prairie Bluff — 34.51°N, 88.92°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.90°N, 88.98°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.91°WPrairie Bluff — 33.72°N, 88.90°WPrairie Bluff — 33.50°N, 88.81°WPrairie Bluff — 33.05°N, 88.56°WPrairie Bluff — 32.90°N, 88.46°WPrairie Bluff — 32.74°N, 88.36°WPrairie Bluff — 32.70°N, 88.17°WPrairie Bluff — 32.61°N, 88.24°WPrairie Bluff — 32.43°N, 88.04°WPrairie Bluff — 32.39°N, 87.92°WPrairie Bluff — 32.31°N, 87.80°WPrairie Bluff — 32.23°N, 87.50°WPrairie Bluff — 32.14°N, 87.42°WPrairie Bluff — 32.07°N, 87.33°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 87.26°WPrairie Bluff — 32.04°N, 86.78°WPrairie Bluff — 31.97°N, 86.72°WPrairie Bluff — 32.00°N, 86.48°WPrairie Bluff — 31.98°N, 86.00°WPrairie Bluff — 31.99°N, 85.92°WProvidence — 31.91°N, 86.17°WProvidence — 31.97°N, 86.00°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.70°WProvidence — 31.95°N, 85.68°WProvidence — 31.92°N, 85.35°WProvidence — 31.94°N, 86.11°WProvidence — 31.84°N, 85.22°WProvidence — 31.78°N, 85.14°WProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.80°N, 85.00°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WNacatoch Sand — 32.10°N, 96.47°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WNacatoch Sand — 33.19°N, 95.22°WNacatoch Sand — 33.14°N, 96.11°WCotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°WLadd — 33.70°N, 117.60°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 36.14°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 36.16°N, 109.84°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 35.96°N, 110.89°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WOwl Creek — 34.74°N, 88.90°WOwl Creek — 34.78°N, 88.89°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.85°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WOwl Creek — 34.49°N, 89.00°WSevern — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WCorsicana Marl — 33.53°N, 94.51°WCorsicana Marl — 30.37°N, 97.46°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WCorsicana Marl — 29.63°N, 98.54°WCorsicana Marl — 29.37°N, 98.78°WCorsicana Marl — 31.30°N, 96.90°WCorsicana Marl — 29.57°N, 97.96°WWoodbine — 32.73°N, 97.22°WWoodbine — 32.77°N, 97.01°WWoodbine — 32.86°N, 97.06°WWoodbine — 33.73°N, 96.77°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.45°WWoodbine — 33.87°N, 95.57°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.72°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.85°WChiwapa — 34.60°N, 88.95°WChiwapa — 34.46°N, 88.90°WChulec — 6.57°S, 78.73°WChulec — 7.16°S, 78.51°WChulec — 6.77°S, 78.62°WRipley — 32.05°N, 86.78°WRipley — 35.32°N, 88.42°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°WRipley — 34.45°N, 89.01°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WTropic Shale — 37.21°N, 111.17°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WRomiron — 5.48°S, 78.52°WWapiabi — 52.92°N, 115.23°WWapiabi — 53.00°N, 115.00°WWapiabi — 52.61°N, 116.34°WMungo River — 4.53°N, 9.51°EPeedee — 33.91°N, 79.45°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WEutaw — 32.35°N, 85.09°WEutaw — 32.72°N, 87.80°WEutaw — 32.77°N, 87.87°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°EMadiela — 0.38°N, 9.76°EAnacacho Limestone — 29.44°N, 98.86°WAnacacho Limestone — 29.19°N, 100.30°W

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The named rock units Liopistha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Liopistha and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,717 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 270 sites for Liopistha, and this reads 240 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

61 references

Each of the 283 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. 49 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 Liopistha

Source
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meek 1864