Lyria

Lyria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutidae.

Lyria

Manuel CABALLER · CC BY 4.0 · 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
LyriiniPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 270 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 270 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 24 of 270 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 78 of 270 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 40 of 270 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 90 of 270 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 29 of 270 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 270 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 12 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 10 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 11 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 12 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 13 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 16 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 16 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 18 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 17 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 9 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 15 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 17 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 12 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 63 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 13 occurrences93.9 Mya774 ka115 Mya0 Mya

270 occurrences of Lyria on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

270 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

91 formations

Gurabo — 19.48°N, 71.09°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.20°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.92°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 18.73°N, 71.00°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 70.50°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.53°N, 71.33°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WGurabo — 18.93°N, 71.62°WLlajas — 34.31°N, 118.67°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.63°WJuncal — 34.77°N, 119.15°WJuncal — 34.40°N, 118.48°WJuncal — 34.55°N, 118.71°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.72°WJuncal — 34.56°N, 118.75°WGaj — 23.28°N, 68.97°EGaj — 23.33°N, 68.85°EGaj — 23.25°N, 68.87°EGaj — 23.22°N, 68.75°EGaj — 23.35°N, 68.82°EGaj — 24.87°N, 67.05°EGaj — 26.88°N, 67.26°EGaj — 24.98°N, 66.90°ESanta Susana — 34.07°N, 118.55°WSanta Susana — 34.25°N, 118.72°WRed Bluff — 30.98°N, 88.73°WRed Bluff — 31.81°N, 88.69°WRed Bluff — 31.66°N, 88.66°WNari — 26.36°N, 67.86°ENari — 28.00°N, 66.00°ENari — 30.17°N, 67.00°ENari — 26.14°N, 66.79°ENari — 25.38°N, 67.80°EByram — 32.01°N, 89.38°WByram — 32.18°N, 90.25°WByram — 32.32°N, 90.86°WByram — 32.48°N, 90.80°WByram — 32.12°N, 90.53°WArcadia — 27.89°N, 82.48°WArcadia — 27.96°N, 82.37°WArcadia — 30.48°N, 84.02°WArcadia — 30.21°N, 84.30°WClayton — 32.08°N, 87.40°WClayton — 31.93°N, 87.11°WClayton — 32.07°N, 87.27°WKincaid — 29.89°N, 97.67°WKincaid — 31.52°N, 96.53°WKincaid — 29.75°N, 97.87°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WTalara — 5.13°S, 81.17°WTalara — 5.87°S, 80.62°WTalara — 4.74°S, 81.30°WRio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WInglis Limestone — 29.23°N, 82.70°WInglis Limestone — 29.05°N, 82.45°WInglis Limestone — 29.03°N, 82.67°WChipola — 30.44°N, 85.19°WSuwannee Limestone — 28.56°N, 82.39°WSuwannee Limestone — 30.28°N, 83.71°WQuilon Limestone — 8.87°N, 76.59°EQuilon Limestone — 8.97°N, 76.63°EBaitoa — 19.30°N, 70.80°WBaitoa — 19.35°N, 70.70°WMao — 19.52°N, 71.13°WMao — 19.57°N, 71.17°WMao — 19.55°N, 71.17°WTermofourà — 45.05°N, 7.80°EFlournoy — 43.31°N, 123.10°WFlournoy — 43.26°N, 123.03°WCambay Shale — 21.45°N, 73.13°ESelsey — 50.73°N, 0.78°WCalcaire de Vigny — 49.07°N, 1.92°E

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The named rock units Lyria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 67 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lyria and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lyria and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,824 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 153 sites for Lyria, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

99 references

Each of the 270 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. 87 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Lyria

Credit
Manuel CABALLER
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1847