Lacinia alveata

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LaciniaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Buccinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Buccinidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Lacinia alveata 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
14 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
6 formations
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group6
- Kosciusko Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Queen City Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Winona Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Lacinia alveata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lacinia alveata and its relatives
EoceneWhere Lacinia alveata and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
355 taxa- Corbula (Caryocorbula) alabamiensis7 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta7 sites
- Ancilla staminea6 sites
- Athleta petrosa6 sites
- Callista (Callista) perovata6 sites
- Calyptraphorus velatus6 sites
- Crepidula lirata6 sites
- Turritella6 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta5 sites
- Caricella pyruloides5 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mauricensis5 sites
- Venericardia (Rotundicardia) rotunda5 sites
- Agaronia alabamensis4 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) elaborata4 sites
- Barbatia (Plagiarca) rhomboidella4 sites
- Bullata semen4 sites
- Caestocorbula murchisonii4 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) aequorea4 sites
- Chondrichthyes4 sites
- Crepidula dumosa4 sites
- Cyclostremiscus4 sites
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) ungulina4 sites
- Eopleurotoma4 sites
- Gegania antiquata4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Lacinia alveata, 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
7 references- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area4
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region4
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda2
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals1
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)1
- Effects of sampling on paleoecologic and taphonomic analyses in high-diversity fossil accumulations: an example from the Eocene Gosport Sand, Alabama1
- A new fauna from the Cook Mountain Eocene near Smithville, Bastrop County, Texas1
Each of the 14 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 Lacinia alveata
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No 3D scan of Lacinia alveata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itLacinia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1833)