Liothyrina peruviana

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LiothyrinaPBDB
- 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 most 7.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Liothyrina peruviana 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
5 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Liothyrina peruviana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Liothyrina peruviana and its relatives
EoceneWhere Liothyrina peruviana and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
55 taxa- Discocyclina3 sites
- Agaronia saxosa2 sites
- Epitonium (Acrilla) peruvianum2 sites
- Lyria2 sites
- Pseudoliva2 sites
- Agaronia1 site
- Amotapas1 site
- Ancillarina1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Architectonica sullana1 site
- Aturia alabamensis1 site
- Aturia peruviana1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Caryocorbula salina1 site
- Cassis maccormacki1 site
- Chiralithes1 site
- Clavella (Clavilithes)1 site
- Clavilithes lagunitensis1 site
- Clavilithes pozoensis1 site
- Clavilithes woodringi1 site
- Clementia (Egesta) peruviana1 site
- Cypraeorbis boggsi1 site
- Daphnella1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Liothyrina peruviana, 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
2 references- Contributions to the Tertiary Paleontology of Northern Peru: Part 3, Eocene Mollusca4
- Contributions to the Tertiary paleontology of northern Peru: Part 11
Each of the 5 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 Liothyrina peruviana
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Liothyrina peruviana 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 itLiothyrina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olsson 1928