Lyrotyphis

Lyrotyphis is an extinct genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Lyrotyphis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MuricidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Muricidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Muricidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Muricidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesOligocene — about 7 of 54 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 47 of 54 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 54 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–32 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 7 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.7–8.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.7–7.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.7–6.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence6.7–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–4.8 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27.3 Mya11.63 Mya34.5 Mya4.8 Mya

54 occurrences of Lyrotyphis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

54 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

8 formations

Vejle Fjord — 56.00°N, 9.25°EBranden Clay — 56.80°N, 9.04°EBreda — 51.95°N, 6.75°EAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EViborg — 56.00°N, 9.25°EWerder — 52.98°N, 9.06°EBrejning — 56.87°N, 8.64°E

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The named rock units Lyrotyphis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lyrotyphis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Lyrotyphis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

459 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 48 sites for Lyrotyphis, 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

7 references

Each of the 54 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 Lyrotyphis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lyrotyphis 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMuricidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jousseaume 1880