Liothyrella

Liothyrella is a genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Terebratulidae.

Liothyrella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TerebratulinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Terebratulidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 67 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 12 of 87 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 87 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 54 of 87 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 87 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 18 of 87 occurrencesMiocene87–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 5 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 5 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 1 occurrence46–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 18 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 16 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 9 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83.6 Mya15.98 Mya87 Mya10 Mya

87 occurrences of Liothyrella on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

87 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

19 formations

Wilson Bluff — 31.68°S, 129.00°EWilson Bluff — 32.07°S, 126.10°EWilson Bluff — 31.02°S, 126.08°EWilson Bluff — 32.04°S, 126.04°EWilson Bluff — 31.66°S, 128.49°EWilson Bluff — 31.72°S, 127.23°EWilson Bluff — 31.65°S, 127.02°EWilson Bluff — 32.27°S, 126.04°EWilson Bluff — 31.97°S, 125.92°EWilson Bluff — 31.65°S, 128.77°ELa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.64°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.68°WLa Meseta — 64.26°S, 56.74°WGingin — 30.67°S, 115.80°EGingin — 31.35°S, 115.90°EGingin — 31.34°S, 115.90°EGingin — 30.69°S, 115.70°ERed Bluff Tuff — 44.00°S, 176.50°WRed Bluff Tuff — 44.30°S, 176.25°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.83°S, 176.53°WRed Bluff Tuff — 43.67°S, 176.53°WWilson Bluff Limestone — 31.98°S, 127.03°EWilson Bluff Limestone — 31.68°S, 129.02°ETe Whanga Limestone — 43.82°S, 176.50°WTe Whanga Limestone — 44.28°S, 176.77°WAbrakurrie Limestone — 31.72°S, 127.22°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 31.65°S, 127.02°EAbrakurrie Limestone — 32.73°S, 125.03°EIhungia — 40.13°S, 176.55°EIhungia — 40.27°S, 176.22°EToolinna Limestone — 32.07°S, 126.10°EToolinna Limestone — 32.73°S, 125.03°EWerillup — 34.98°S, 118.05°EWerillup — 34.84°S, 118.17°EMiria — 22.75°S, 114.39°EMiria — 22.82°S, 114.19°EPakaurangi — 36.23°S, 174.29°ECape Melville — 62.02°S, 57.62°WKokoamu Greensand — 45.04°S, 171.00°EWerrilup — 34.98°S, 118.04°EGingin Chalk — 31.35°S, 115.90°EToolonga Chalk — 27.67°S, 114.17°EKorojon Calcarenite — 22.82°S, 114.19°EOtotara — 45.18°S, 170.90°E

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The named rock units Liothyrella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Liothyrella and its relatives

Eocene

Where Liothyrella and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

182 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Liothyrella, 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

13 references

Each of the 87 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. 1 further reference is 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 Liothyrella

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Liothyrella uva · usnm:No number

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 itTerebratulinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thomson 1916