Liocium punctatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LiociumPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 93.9 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Liocium punctatum on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
13 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Liocium punctatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Liocium punctatum and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Liocium punctatum and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Biplica isoplicata12 sites
- Calva (Calva) regina9 sites
- Carota mitraeformis9 sites
- Gymnarus manubriatus9 sites
- Gyrodes (Gyrodes) dowelli9 sites
- Natica (Gyrodes) conradiana9 sites
- Ostrea malleiformis9 sites
- Actaeonella oviformis8 sites
- Meekia (Mygallia) takeoana8 sites
- Willimactra (Willimactra) putida8 sites
- Glycymeris pacifica7 sites
- Turritella robusta7 sites
- Atresius liratus5 sites
- Cucullaea (Idonearca) gravida5 sites
- Yezoites puerculus5 sites
- Acteon politus4 sites
- Acteonella frazierensis4 sites
- Ampullina pseudoalveata4 sites
- Anchura (Helicaulax) condoniana4 sites
- Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus)4 sites
- Nerita salsa4 sites
- Pterotrigonia klamathonia4 sites
- Tenea4 sites
- Tragodesmoceras ashlandicum4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Liocium punctatum, 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
3 references- Mid-Cretaceous (Albian to Turonian) biostratigraphy of northern California11
- Additions to Late Cretaceous shallow-marine Gastropods from California1
- Type And Referred Specimens of Fossil Invertebrata in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Supplement 3: Mollusca Formerly Conserved at the University of California, Los Angeles1
Each of the 13 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 Liocium punctatum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Liocium punctatum 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 itLiocium through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gabb 1869