Liebea

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MyalinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Pteriomorphia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 39 million years on record.
The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
124 occurrences of Liebea on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
124 occurrences- Permian100%
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
32 formations
- Ford Formation51
- Naujoji Akmené Formation6
- Zalgiris Formation4
- Lekvorkuta Formation4
- Zechstein Formation4
- Kazan Formation3
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The named rock units Liebea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Liebea and its relatives
PermianWhere Liebea and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
505 taxa- Parallelodon striatus31 sites
- Pseudomonotis (Pseudomonotis) speluncaria25 sites
- Dielasma elongatum24 sites
- Permophorus costatus24 sites
- Bakevellia19 sites
- Bakevellia (Bakevellia) binneyi17 sites
- Stutchburia modioliformis15 sites
- Naticopsis minima14 sites
- Schizodus schlotheimi14 sites
- Synocladia dubia14 sites
- Bradyospira antrina12 sites
- Rectifenestella retiformis12 sites
- Streblopteria pusilla12 sites
- Peripetoceras freieslebeni10 sites
- Tunstallia helicina10 sites
- Cyathocrinites ramosus9 sites
- Horridonia horrida9 sites
- Paraspiriferina multiplicata9 sites
- Spiriferellina cristata9 sites
- Stenoscisma schlotheimi9 sites
- Bakevellia (Bakevellia) ceratophaga8 sites
- Edmondia elongata8 sites
- Schizodus obscurus8 sites
- Schizodus truncatus8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Liebea, 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
38 references- Zechstein reef fossils and their palaeoecology21
- Permskaya sistema Pribaltiki (fauna i stratigrafiya). Permian deposits of the Baltic region (stratigraphy and fauna)13
- Monograph of the Permian fossils of England12
- The Permian Bivalvia of northern England11
- Muromtseva and Guskov, 19847
- A catalogue of the fossils of the Permian system of the counties of Northumberland and Durham7
- Yao et al., 19805
- Karroo Lamellibranchia from Tanganyika Territory and Madagascar5
- On the geological relations and internal structure of the Magnesian Limestone, and the lower portions of the New Red Sandstone Series in their range through Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, and Durham, to the southern extremity of Northumberland4
- Sedimentary history and biota of the Zechstein Limestone (Permian, Wuchiapingian) of the Jablonna Reef in Western Poland2
- Type and reference sections of the Middle and Upper Permian of the Volga and Kama River Regions: A Field Guidebook of XVIII International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian2
- Late Permian deep water strata and bivalves of south Guizhou2
Each of the 124 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. 26 further references are not listed. 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 Liebea
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Liebea 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 itMyalinidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waagen 1881