Lirobittium rugatum

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LirobittiumPBDB
- Diet
- grazerPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cerithiimorpha
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
54 occurrences of Lirobittium rugatum on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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 occurrences- Miocene2%
- Pliocene30%
- Pleistocene69%
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
12 formations
- Timms Point Silt Formation11
- Pico Formation7
- Towsley Formation6
- Lomita Marl Formation6
- San Pedro Sand Formation5
- Palos Verdes Sand Formation5
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The named rock units Lirobittium rugatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lirobittium rugatum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Lirobittium rugatum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
1,201 taxa- Turritella cooperi31 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana27 sites
- Saccella taphria26 sites
- Dallocardia quadragenarium24 sites
- Acteocina culcitella23 sites
- Californiconus californicus23 sites
- Mitrella gausapata22 sites
- Caesia perpinguis21 sites
- Solen sicarius21 sites
- Dentalium neohexagonum20 sites
- Mitrella tuberosa20 sites
- Crepidula onyx19 sites
- Thylacodes squamigerus19 sites
- Crepidula nummaria17 sites
- Crockerella conradiana17 sites
- Lucinisca nuttalli17 sites
- Callianax pedroana16 sites
- Calliostoma canaliculatum16 sites
- Cryptomya californica16 sites
- Megasurcula carpenteriana16 sites
- Panopea generosa16 sites
- Caesia fossatus15 sites
- Parvilucina tenuisculpta15 sites
- Callianax biplicata14 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Lirobittium rugatum, 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
23 references- The cool-water Timms Point Pleistocene horizon at San Pedro, California10
- Geology of southeastern Ventura basin, Los Angeles County, California7
- Early Pliocene marine climate and environment of the eastern Ventura Basin, Southern California6
- Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California5
- Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California3
- The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California3
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of some marine Pleistocene deposits in northwest Los Angeles Basin, California2
- Distributional List of the West American Marine Molluscs from San Diego, California to the Polar Sea2
- Geology and Paleontology of a Portion of Los Angeles, California2
- Late Pleistocene marine fauna, Goleta, California1
- A Late Pliocene macrofossil fauna of Newport Beach, Orange County, California1
- Paleoecologic molluscan geography of the Californian Pleistocene1
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. 11 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 Lirobittium rugatum
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No 3D scan of Lirobittium rugatum 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itLirobittium through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Carpenter 1866)