Lioconcha

Lioconcha is a genus of molluscs in the family Veneridae.

Lioconcha

Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
CallocardiinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 10 of 33 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 33 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 16 of 33 occurrencesPleistocene16–16 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.9–9.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.8–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–7.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–6.6 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.6–6.0 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.0–5.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.4–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–3.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.7–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–1.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.6–1.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.1–549 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences549 ka–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences11.63 Mya129 ka16.5 Mya0 Mya

33 occurrences of Lioconcha on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

33 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

14 formations

Cercado — 19.30°N, 71.67°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.18°WCercado — 19.45°N, 71.08°WAbbas — 16.75°N, 41.73°EOrmara & Jiwani — 25.42°N, 65.50°ENyalindung — 7.49°S, 110.00°ENyalindung — 7.48°S, 108.42°EGurabo — 19.48°N, 70.98°WGurabo — 19.58°N, 71.05°WMalua — 16.25°S, 167.50°ESzekou — 22.01°N, 120.72°ENagura Gravel — 24.43°N, 124.23°ERyukyu Limestone — 24.38°N, 124.22°ETalar — 25.33°N, 62.00°EChatti Mudstone — 25.25°N, 62.25°ETartaro — 15.15°N, 121.01°EUlian — 11.09°N, 122.49°ETogopi — 5.50°N, 117.00°E

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The named rock units Lioconcha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lioconcha and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lioconcha and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

541 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Lioconcha, 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

15 references

Each of the 33 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. 3 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 content2

Picture of Lioconcha

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Lioconcha castrensis · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:319832

The description on this site

Licence
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 itCallocardiinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Mörch 1853)