Liracassis rex

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LiracassisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cassidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cassidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cassidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Liracassis rex 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
11 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
- Blakeley Formation7
- Pysht Formation · Twin River Group4
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The named rock units Liracassis rex has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Liracassis rex and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Liracassis rex and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
122 taxa- Acila (Acila) gettysburgensis5 sites
- Solemya (Acharax) dalli5 sites
- Cochlodesma bainbridgensis4 sites
- Conchocele bisecta4 sites
- Crepidula ungana4 sites
- Macrocallista cathcartensis4 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) washingtonensis4 sites
- Polinices (Euspira) blakeleyensis4 sites
- Priscofusus stewarti4 sites
- Turritella diversilineata blakeleyensis4 sites
- Bruclarkia thor3 sites
- Cyclocardia castor3 sites
- Cyclocardia hannai3 sites
- Dentalium pseudonyma3 sites
- Epitonium (Cirsotrema) saundersi3 sites
- Ficus modesta3 sites
- Gyrineum goodspeedi3 sites
- Hemithiris3 sites
- Lucina3 sites
- Macoma lorenzoensis arnoldi3 sites
- Marginella shepardae3 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) washingtonensis3 sites
- Opalia (Opalia) bravinderi3 sites
- Pandora (Pandorella) vanwinkleae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Liracassis rex, 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
3 references- Megafaunal zones of the Oligocene of northwestern Washington8
- Paleontology of the Marine Tertiary formations of Oregon and Washington2
- The gastropod genus Galeodea in the Oligocene of Washington1
Each of the 11 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 Liracassis rex
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Liracassis rex 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 itLiracassis through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tegland 1931)