Liopistha protexta
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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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
136 occurrences of Liopistha protexta 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
136 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
14 formations
- Prairie Bluff Formation · Selma Group35
- Providence Formation20
- Nacatoch Sand Formation13
- Owl Creek Formation · Selma Group10
- Severn Formation9
- Chiwapa Formation6
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The named rock units Liopistha protexta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Liopistha protexta and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Liopistha protexta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
793 taxa- Exogyra (Exogyra) costata77 sites
- Crassatella vadosa71 sites
- Veniella conradi71 sites
- Anomia argentaria68 sites
- Cyprimeria63 sites
- Cymbophora59 sites
- Idonearca capax57 sites
- Linearis53 sites
- Granocardium51 sites
- Turritella vertebroides47 sites
- Crenella serica46 sites
- Nuculana46 sites
- Turritella trilira46 sites
- Camptonectes bubonis45 sites
- Syncyclonema45 sites
- Pseudolimea reticulata44 sites
- Turritella42 sites
- Cardium41 sites
- Serpula41 sites
- Cubitostrea tecticosta40 sites
- Cliona38 sites
- Cyclorisma38 sites
- Glycymeris38 sites
- Legumen ellipticum38 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 134 sites for Liopistha protexta, 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
13 references- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain48
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf21
- Unpublished data on Cretaceous-Paleocene molluscan assemblages18
- The larger invertebrate fossils of the Navarro group of Texas14
- Stratigraphy of the outcropping post-Magothy Upper Cretaceous formations in Southern New Jersey an Northern Delmarva peninsula, Delaware and Maryland11
- Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrate Fossils from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the west gulf Coastal Plain9
- Cretaceous deposits of the eastern gulf region and species of Exogyra from the eastern gulf region and the Carolinas7
- Fabric of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Marine Macrofaunal Transition at Braggs, Alabama3
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- The first reported ceratopsid dinosaur from eastern North America (Owl Creek Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Mississippi, USA)1
- Faunal changes across the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary in the Atlantic coastal plain of New Jersey: restructuring the marine community after the K-T mass-extinction event1
- Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary1
Each of the 136 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. 1 further reference is 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
No picture of Liopistha protexta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Liopistha protexta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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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What may have been alongside itLiopistha through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1853