Lucapina sowerbii
Lucapina sowerbii, common name Sowerby's fleshy limpet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.

Jan Delsing · 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
- LucapinaPBDB
- Diet
- grazer, browserPBDB, for Lucapina
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lucapina
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucapina
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Lucapina sowerbii on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Lucapina sowerbii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lucapina sowerbii and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lucapina sowerbii and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
234 taxa- Americardia media2 sites
- Arcopagia fausta2 sites
- Barbatia candida2 sites
- Calliostoma2 sites
- Callucina keenae2 sites
- Chama macerophylla2 sites
- Chione cancellata2 sites
- Codakia orbicularis2 sites
- Ctenoides (Ctenoides) scabra2 sites
- Dosinia (Dosinidia) elegans2 sites
- Lamarcka imbricata2 sites
- Lucinisca nassula2 sites
- Ostrea2 sites
- Spondylus americanus2 sites
- Tellinella listeri2 sites
- Tucetona pectinata2 sites
- Abra aequalis1 site
- Acar domingensis1 site
- Acorylus gouldii1 site
- Acteocina candei1 site
- Aequipecten1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara (Caloosarca) aequalitas1 site
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lucapina sowerbii, 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
2 references- Mollusca of the "Glades" unit in southern Florida: Part I Introduction and observations1
- Geology of the Republic of Haiti1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Lucapina sowerbii
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Jan Delsing
- Licence
- Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itLucapina through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sowerby 1835)