Lirosoma
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FasciolariidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 34 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 41.03 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
8 occurrences of Lirosoma on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
8 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Lirosoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lirosoma and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Lirosoma and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Bostrycapulus aculeatus3 sites
- Crucibulum (Dispotaea) constrictum3 sites
- Euspira heros3 sites
- Kuphus fistula3 sites
- Turritella (Turritella) alticostata3 sites
- Astyris communis2 sites
- Busycon2 sites
- Chesapecten madisonius2 sites
- Crepidula fornicata2 sites
- Cyclocardia granulata2 sites
- Ecphora quadricostata2 sites
- Marginella2 sites
- Mercenaria2 sites
- Nassarius2 sites
- Noetia incile2 sites
- Parvilucina crenulata2 sites
- Pitar morrhuanus2 sites
- Serpulorbis granifera2 sites
- Urosalpinx2 sites
- Yoldia laevis2 sites
- Acteocina candei1 site
- Ancilla kovatschensis1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Antimelatoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lirosoma, 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
3 references- The G.D Harris 1890 manuscript on the stratigraphy of Miocene and Pliocene beds at Yorktown, Virginia4
- Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions3
- Eocene gastropods of western Kamchatka - implications for high-latitude north Pacific biostratigraphy and biogeography1
Each of the 8 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 Lirosoma
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lirosoma 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFasciolariidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.