Lacazella mediterranea

Lacazella mediterranea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LacazellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Thecideida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Thecideida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Thecideida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 50 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Paleocene — about 2 of 21 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 9 of 21 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 21 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–55 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–31 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 3 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–8.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.3–6.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.3–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–2.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56 Mya5.333 Mya60 Mya2 Mya

21 occurrences of Lacazella mediterranea on record, most of them in the Oligocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

21 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

Sant'Agata Fossili — 45.06°N, 7.94°EBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WMarna Euganea — 45.33°N, 11.69°EMarnes de Saint-Etienne-d’Orthe — 43.57°N, 1.10°WFalun de St. Paul-les-Dax — 43.75°N, 1.09°WFalun d'Escornebeou et Sainte Paul-les-Dax — 43.75°N, 1.09°WSzepvolgy Limestone — 47.46°N, 18.93°EDnieper Beds — 48.45°N, 35.15°E

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The named rock units Lacazella mediterranea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lacazella mediterranea and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Lacazella mediterranea and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

220 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Lacazella mediterranea, 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

10 references

Each of the 21 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 Lacazella mediterranea

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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 itLacazella through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Risso 1826)