Lyapinella

Lyapinella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AstartidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Crassatelloidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Crassatelloidea

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 2 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–138 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–136 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–119 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences143.1 Mya121.4 Mya149.8 Mya119 Mya

9 occurrences of Lyapinella on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

9 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

4 formations

Spilsby Sandstone — 53.48°N, 0.35°WSpilsby Sandstone — 52.78°N, 0.52°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.13°N, 0.05°ESpilsby Sandstone — 53.37°N, 0.05°WSandringham Sandstone — 52.62°N, 0.47°ESandringham Sandstone — 52.80°N, 0.50°EAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WHesteelv — 70.75°N, 23.50°W

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The named rock units Lyapinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lyapinella and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Lyapinella and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

204 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Lyapinella, 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

Each of the 9 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 Lyapinella

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Lyapinella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAstartidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zakharov 1970