Lyria sabulosa

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LyriaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Lyria sabulosa on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Lyria sabulosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lyria sabulosa and its relatives
EoceneWhere Lyria sabulosa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Callocardia salvia1 site
- Caryocorbula salina1 site
- Clementia (Egesta) peruviana1 site
- Cypraeorbis boggsi1 site
- Doliocassis samanica1 site
- Ectinochilus gaudichaudi alauda1 site
- Epitonium (Acrilla) peruvianum1 site
- Ficopsis otaria1 site
- Juliacorbula boggsi1 site
- Lamelliconcha hillii1 site
- Nassarius salina1 site
- Natica (Natica) peruviana1 site
- Polinices (Polinices) woodsi1 site
- Pseudoliva modesta1 site
- Sphaerocypraea negritensis1 site
- Tritiaria terebratula1 site
- Voluta (Peruluta) peruviana samanica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lyria sabulosa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca1
- Contributions to the Tertiary paleontology of northern Peru: Part 11
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 Lyria sabulosa
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lyria sabulosa 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.
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What may have been alongside itLyria through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson 1928