Lucinisca varisculpta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LuciniscaPBDB
- Diet
- chemosymbioticPBDB, for Lucinisca
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Lucinisca
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lucinisca
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
24 occurrences of Lucinisca varisculpta 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
24 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
3 formations
- Byram Formation · Vicksburg Group19
- Mint Spring Formation4
- Red Bluff Formation · Vicksburg Group1
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The named rock units Lucinisca varisculpta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lucinisca varisculpta and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Lucinisca varisculpta and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
179 taxa- Corbula engonata7 sites
- Nucula vicksburgensis7 sites
- Pitar7 sites
- Barbatia (Cucullaearca) mississippiensis6 sites
- Lirophora (Lirophora) victoria6 sites
- Spisula6 sites
- Varicorbula laqueata6 sites
- Callista5 sites
- Crassinella variablis5 sites
- Eburneopecten (Eburneopecten) subminutus5 sites
- Ervilia5 sites
- Glycymeris arctata5 sites
- Ostrea paroxis5 sites
- Pteria argentea5 sites
- Verticordia5 sites
- Atrina argentea4 sites
- Chione4 sites
- Donax funerata4 sites
- Lopha (Lopha) vicksburgensis4 sites
- Lucina (Parvilucina) posteocurta4 sites
- Myrtina vicksburgensis4 sites
- Scapharca (Scapharca) delicatula4 sites
- Semele4 sites
- Tellina4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Lucinisca varisculpta, 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- Testing for patterns of faunal persistence in the early Oligocene Byram Formation of Mississippi16
- Lower Oligocene Bivalvia of the Vicksburg Group in Mississippi7
- Paleoecological patterns in molluscan extinctions and recoveries: comparison of the Cretaceous-Paleogene and Eocene-Oligocene extinctions in North America1
Each of the 24 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 content0
No picture of Lucinisca varisculpta was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lucinisca varisculpta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lucinisca varisculpta 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.
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What may have been alongside itLucinisca through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dockery 1982)