Lyonsia hyalina
Eric A. Lazo-Wasem · CC0 · via Wikidata/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
- LyonsiaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lyonsiidae
- Life habit
- deep infaunalPBDB, for Lyonsia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lyonsiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
4 occurrences of Lyonsia hyalina 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
4 occurrences- Pliocene25%
- Pleistocene50%
- Holocene25%
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
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The named rock units Lyonsia hyalina 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.
Lyonsia hyalina and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lyonsia hyalina and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
100 taxa- Buccella2 sites
- Elphidium2 sites
- ? Trochamminella atlantica1 site
- Abra aequalis1 site
- Acteocina canaliculata1 site
- Ammonia1 site
- Anadara (Larkinia) transversa1 site
- Angulus agilis1 site
- Angulus texanus1 site
- Anomia simplex1 site
- Aperiploma lena1 site
- Argopecten gibbus1 site
- Astrangia danae1 site
- Astrononion1 site
- Atractodon1 site
- Barnea truncata1 site
- Bornia1 site
- Busycon carica1 site
- Busycotypus canaliculatus1 site
- Caryocorbula contracta1 site
- Centropyxis1 site
- Cerithiopsis greenii1 site
- Cibicides lobatulus1 site
- Cingula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lyonsia hyalina, 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
4 references- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- The fauna and paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene marine sediments of southeastern Virginia1
- Late Quaternary Marine Fossils from Frobisher Bay (Baffin Island, N.W.T. Canada)1
- Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America1
Each of the 4 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 Lyonsia hyalina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Eric A. Lazo-Wasem
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lyonsia hyalina 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 itLyonsia through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1831)