Liopistha (Psilomya)

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 7 of 56 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 49 of 56 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 56 occurrences121–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–108 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 6 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 6 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 6 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 8 occurrences93–91 Mya — about 9 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 6 occurrences89–87 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences113.2 Mya72.2 Mya121 Mya65 Mya

56 occurrences of Liopistha (Psilomya) 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

56 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

20 formations

Cotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCotinguiba — 10.86°S, 37.15°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°WWoodbine — 32.73°N, 97.22°WWoodbine — 32.86°N, 97.06°WWoodbine — 33.73°N, 96.77°WWoodbine — 33.66°N, 96.45°WWoodbine — 33.87°N, 95.57°WRomiron — 5.48°S, 78.52°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WTropic Shale — 37.21°N, 111.17°Wopoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Emarly chalk — 51.28°N, 21.90°Emarly chalk — 51.22°N, 21.43°EToreva — 35.74°N, 110.82°WKaskapau — 55.72°N, 121.20°WKaskapau — 55.95°N, 122.12°WTres Hermanos — 34.27°N, 106.86°WTres Hermanos — 34.44°N, 107.47°WLadd — 33.72°N, 117.63°WLadd — 33.75°N, 117.64°WMadiela — 0.38°N, 9.76°EMaastrichtian chalk — 56.97°N, 9.68°EMancos — 36.80°N, 108.93°WBlackdown Greensand — 50.87°N, 3.29°WLignites de Traiguera — 40.52°N, 0.30°WDunvegan — 55.13°N, 121.07°WClearwater — 53.28°N, 117.85°WPeace River — 56.23°N, 117.28°WPaja — 6.60°N, 73.09°W

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The named rock units Liopistha (Psilomya) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Liopistha (Psilomya) and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

507 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Liopistha (Psilomya), 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

19 references

Each of the 56 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. 7 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 content0

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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 1876)