Liracassis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CassidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cassidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cassidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cassidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
54 occurrences of Liracassis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
54 occurrencesThese 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
11 formations
- Blakeley Formation12
- Pysht Formation · Twin River Group9
- Twin River Formation6
- Lincoln Creek Formation4
- Astoria Formation3
- Poul Creek Formation2
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The named rock units Liracassis 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.
Liracassis and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Liracassis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
449 taxa- Solemya (Acharax) dalli13 sites
- Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis12 sites
- Conchocele bisecta10 sites
- Macoma (Macoma) twinensis8 sites
- Cryptonatica oregonensis7 sites
- Katherinella arnoldi7 sites
- Aturia angustata6 sites
- Cochlodesma bainbridgensis6 sites
- Dentalium pseudonyma6 sites
- Lucina6 sites
- Macoma5 sites
- Macrocallista cathcartensis5 sites
- Mursia marcusana5 sites
- Portlandia chehalisensis5 sites
- Turritella5 sites
- Turritella diversilineata blakeleyensis5 sites
- Acila (Acila) submirabilis4 sites
- Anechinocardium lorenzanum4 sites
- Crepidula ungana4 sites
- Cyclocardia castor4 sites
- Ennucula4 sites
- Ficus modesta4 sites
- Fissidentalium4 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) washingtonensis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Liracassis, 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- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington16
- Tertiary faunal horizons of western Washington12
- Paleontology of the Marine Tertiary formations of Oregon and Washington4
- Characteristics of the Miocene molluscan assemblages from central San-in District, Southwest Honshu, Japan3
- Miocene marine mollusks from the Astoria Formation in Oregon3
- Fauna of the Poul and Yakataga Formations (Upper Oligocene) of Southern Alaska3
- Fossil decapod crustaceans from the late Oligocene to early Miocene Pysht Formation and late Oligocene Quimper Sandstone, Olympic Peninsula, Washington2
- Molluscan paleontology and biostratigraphy of the Lower Miocene upper part of the Lincoln Creek Formation in southwestern Washington2
- The Gries Ranch Fauna (Oligocene) of Western Washington2
- The gastropod genus Galeodea in the Oligocene of Washington2
- A novel trophic relationship between cassid gastropods and mysticete whale carcasses1
- A comprehensive approach to the study of methane-seep deposits from the Lincoln Creek Formation, western Washington State, USA1
Each of the 54 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 content1

Picture of Liracassis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Liracassis 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 itCassidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moore 1963