Lyrosurcula

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Turridae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Turridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Turridae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
67 occurrences of Lyrosurcula 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
67 occurrencesThese 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
9 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group28
- Weches Formation · Claiborne Group13
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group8
- Reklaw Formation · Claiborne Group6
- Tuscahoma Formation · Wilcox Group4
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation · Wilcox Group3
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The named rock units Lyrosurcula 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.
Lyrosurcula and its relatives
EoceneWhere Lyrosurcula and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
850 taxa- Athleta petrosa29 sites
- Cadulus27 sites
- Turritella27 sites
- Ficus26 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)26 sites
- Pyramidella26 sites
- Sinum26 sites
- Microdrillia25 sites
- Clavilithes24 sites
- Polinices24 sites
- Ancilla staminea23 sites
- Architectonica23 sites
- Levifusus23 sites
- Raphitoma23 sites
- Surculoma23 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta22 sites
- Acteon21 sites
- Hastula21 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta20 sites
- Latirus20 sites
- Michela trabeatoides20 sites
- Falsifusus19 sites
- Trypanotoma19 sites
- Bonellitia18 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Lyrosurcula, 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
9 references- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals35
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda15
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)6
- The Molluscan Macrofauna of the Reklaw Formation, Marquez Member (Eocene: Lower Claibornian), in Texas3
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region3
- Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages2
- Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain1
- Skwarko, 19941
- Geology of the Northern Santa Ana Mountains, California1
Each of the 67 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 Lyrosurcula
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itTurridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.