Liotia

Liotia is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.

Liotia

Melvill & Standen · 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
LiotiidaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Trochoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trochoidea
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Trochoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 152 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 40 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 40 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 40 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 40 occurrencesEocene — about 5 of 40 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 40 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 40 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 40 occurrencesPleistocene — about 8 of 40 occurrences158–153 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences153–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–42 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences42–37 Mya — about 3 occurrences37–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–5.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.3–0 Mya — about 21 occurrences152.21 Mya11.7 ka158 Mya0 Mya

40 occurrences of Liotia on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

40 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

19 formations

Bowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WLomita Marl — 33.75°N, 118.30°WLomita Marl — 33.74°N, 118.29°WFlint River — 30.91°N, 84.58°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WAgueguexquite — 17.58°N, 95.08°WAgueguexquite — 18.14°N, 94.44°WQuaternary terrace — 33.75°N, 118.33°WQuaternary terrace — 33.76°N, 118.35°WAbadia — 38.93°N, 9.00°WUnnamed — 33.24°N, 119.51°WEntrerriense — 42.25°S, 64.08°WShimajiri — 26.13°N, 127.78°EChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WTalara — 5.13°S, 81.17°WCilanang — 7.49°S, 110.00°EBoca de Serpiente — 10.08°N, 62.01°WWaccamaw — 32.91°N, 79.95°WHawthorn — 32.90°N, 81.24°WBlack Mingo — 33.55°N, 79.36°WMorro Mejillones — 23.12°S, 70.52°WLincoln Creek — 47.66°N, 122.96°W

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The named rock units Liotia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Liotia and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Liotia and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

1,601 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Liotia, 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

26 references

Each of the 40 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. 14 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 Liotia

Credit
Melvill & Standen
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Liotia 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itLiotiidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1842