Liracassis apta

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LiracassisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cassidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cassidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cassidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
17 occurrences of Liracassis apta on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
17 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Twin River Formation6
- Pysht Formation · Twin River Group4
- Blakeley Formation2
- Poul Creek Formation2
- Narrow Cape Formation1
- Yakataga Formation1
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The named rock units Liracassis apta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Liracassis apta and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Liracassis apta and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
166 taxa- Solemya (Acharax) dalli9 sites
- Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis8 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) twinensis7 sites
- Conchocele bisecta4 sites
- Acrilla (Undiscala) olympicensis3 sites
- Cochlodesma bainbridgensis3 sites
- Lucina3 sites
- Lucinoma hannibali3 sites
- Mursia marcusana3 sites
- Mya (Mya) truncata3 sites
- Yoldia3 sites
- Acesta (Acesta) twinensis2 sites
- Aforia clallamensis2 sites
- Anechinocardium lorenzanum2 sites
- Asthenognathus cornishorum2 sites
- Aturia angustata2 sites
- Bathybembix turbonata2 sites
- Cyclocardia castor2 sites
- Kellia twinensis2 sites
- Lucinoma acutilineata2 sites
- Macrocheira teglandi2 sites
- Musashia (Musashia)2 sites
- Portlandia2 sites
- Portlandia (Portlandia) packardi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Liracassis apta, 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
8 references- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington6
- Fauna of the Poul and Yakataga Formations (Upper Oligocene) of Southern Alaska3
- Fossil decapod crustaceans from the late Oligocene to early Miocene Pysht Formation and late Oligocene Quimper Sandstone, Olympic Peninsula, Washington2
- Paleontology of the Marine Tertiary formations of Oregon and Washington2
- A novel trophic relationship between cassid gastropods and mysticete whale carcasses1
- Molluscan paleontology and biostratigraphy of the Lower Miocene upper part of the Lincoln Creek Formation in southwestern Washington1
- A late Oligocene or earliest Miocene molluscan fauna from Sitkinak Island, Alaska1
- The gastropod genus Galeodea in the Oligocene of Washington1
Each of the 17 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. 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 Liracassis apta
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Liracassis apta 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 itLiracassis through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tegland 1931)