Lirabuccinum

Lirabuccinum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tudiclidae, the true whelks.

Lirabuccinum

Reeve, 1846 · CC0 · 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
TudiclidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Neogastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Neogastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 1.8 Mya.

Oligocene — about 4 of 25 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 25 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 11 of 25 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 25 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.2–8.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.4–7.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.5–6.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.6–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–4.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.8–3.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.1–2.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.2–1.3 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences23.04 Mya2.58 Mya27.8 Mya1.3 Mya

25 occurrences of Lirabuccinum on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

25 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

9 formations

Sisquoc — 34.81°N, 120.22°WSisquoc — 34.90°N, 120.31°WJacalitos — 36.07°N, 120.45°WJacalitos — 36.06°N, 120.51°WJacalitos — 36.03°N, 120.38°WJacalitos — 35.94°N, 120.17°WJacalitos — 36.14°N, 120.64°WSooke — 48.38°N, 123.87°WCareaga Sandstone — 34.90°N, 120.32°WEtchegoin — 36.06°N, 120.48°WEtchegoin — 36.01°N, 120.31°WYoshino — 35.10°N, 134.19°ETentokuji — 39.75°N, 140.41°EWilson Grove — 38.34°N, 122.84°WTemblor — 35.43°N, 119.87°W

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The named rock units Lirabuccinum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lirabuccinum and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Lirabuccinum and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

335 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Lirabuccinum, 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

11 references

Each of the 25 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. 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 Lirabuccinum

Credit
Reeve, 1846
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lirabuccinum 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.

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 itTudiclidae through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vermeij 1991