Lirophora

Lirophora is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Veneridae.

Lirophora

James St. John · CC BY 2.0 · 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
VenerinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 0 Mya.

Eocene — about 4 of 410 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 16 of 410 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 256 of 410 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 95 of 410 occurrencesPleistocene — about 38 of 410 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–35 Mya — about 1 occurrence35–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 3 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 6 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 6 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 12 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 12 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 12 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 11 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 25 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 30 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 34 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 34 occurrences9.0–7.7 Mya — about 34 occurrences7.7–6.4 Mya — about 20 occurrences6.4–5.1 Mya — about 15 occurrences5.1–3.8 Mya — about 31 occurrences3.8–2.6 Mya — about 60 occurrences2.6–1.3 Mya — about 15 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 24 occurrences33.9 Mya11.7 ka38.5 Mya0 Mya

410 occurrences of Lirophora on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

410 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

75 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WGatun — 9.04°N, 80.65°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.85°WGatun — 9.33°N, 79.89°WGatun — 9.17°N, 80.00°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.12°WShoal River — 30.72°N, 86.04°WShoal River — 30.63°N, 86.17°WShoal River — 30.62°N, 85.98°WShoal River — 30.69°N, 86.65°WSpringvale — 10.62°N, 61.05°WMorne l'Enfer — 10.23°N, 61.63°WPirabas — 0.80°S, 47.13°WPirabas — 1.00°S, 48.00°WPirabas — 1.23°S, 47.40°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 2.58°S, 43.38°WOak Grove — 30.92°N, 86.57°WOak Grove — 30.97°N, 86.46°WOak Grove — 30.87°N, 86.52°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WChipola — 30.57°N, 85.84°WChipola — 30.43°N, 84.98°WChipola — 30.47°N, 84.99°WCulebra — 9.05°N, 79.65°WCulebra — 9.03°N, 79.64°WMare — 10.00°N, 64.00°WMare — 10.00°N, 71.00°WMare — 10.61°N, 63.52°WMare — 10.64°N, 64.11°WJackson Bluff — 30.39°N, 84.64°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.75°N, 76.69°WCalvert — 38.63°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.53°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.53°WEastover — 37.22°N, 76.93°WEastover — 37.10°N, 76.39°WEastover — 37.79°N, 76.72°WEastover — 37.17°N, 76.77°WEastover — 37.82°N, 76.75°WTamiami — 26.67°N, 81.73°WTamiami — 26.72°N, 81.61°WTamiami — 26.73°N, 81.52°WTamiami — 25.90°N, 81.30°WTamiami — 25.67°N, 80.31°WMint Spring — 31.97°N, 89.50°WMint Spring — 31.98°N, 89.42°WMint Spring — 32.27°N, 89.99°WMint Spring — 32.17°N, 90.18°WMint Spring — 32.36°N, 90.87°WMint Spring — 32.47°N, 90.84°WFerrotepec — 18.03°N, 102.38°WFerrotepec — 18.03°N, 103.60°WCharco Azul — 8.55°N, 83.00°WCharco Azul — 8.03°N, 82.92°WWaccamaw — 34.33°N, 78.20°WWaccamaw — 33.97°N, 78.39°WWaccamaw — 34.17°N, 78.60°WRio Banano — 9.91°N, 83.09°WRio Banano — 9.63°N, 82.82°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WTalparo — 10.67°N, 61.07°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.17°N, 82.04°WCanoa — 0.20°N, 80.27°W

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The named rock units Lirophora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 51 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lirophora and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lirophora and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,837 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 212 sites for Lirophora, 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

69 references

Each of the 410 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. 57 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 content2

Picture of Lirophora

Credit
James St. John
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Lirophora latilirata · FMNH:Invertebrate Zoology:176350

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itVenerinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1863)