Lischkeia
Lischkeia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Eucyclidae.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EucyclidaePBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Seguenzioidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Seguenzioidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 35 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 1.8 Mya.
3 occurrences of Lischkeia on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
3 occurrences- Eocene33%
- Pleistocene67%
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
2 formations
- Shinzato Formation · Shimajiri Group2
- Shiratake Formation1
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The named rock units Lischkeia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Aloconatica niasensis1 site
- Biplex1 site
- Bolma1 site
- Bursa corrugata1 site
- Conus1 site
- Dolichozygus stearnsi1 site
- Gemmula1 site
- Hindsia (Nihonophos)1 site
- Hirtomurex1 site
- Laqueus elongatus1 site
- Lioglyphostoma1 site
- Makiyamaia coreanica okinavensis1 site
- Mitrella1 site
- Nassarius (Zeuxis) concinnus1 site
- Naticarius concinnus1 site
- Peponocyathus folliculus1 site
- Semicassis bisulcata1 site
- Terebratulina subcarinata1 site
- Triphora1 site
- Xenophora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lischkeia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits2
- Paleogene and Early Neogene molluscan faunae in West Japan1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Lischkeia
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Shellnut
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lischkeia was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Lischkeia”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEucyclidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fischer 1879