Lirofusus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FasciolariinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Fasciolariidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
34 occurrences of Lirofusus 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
34 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
- Hatchetigbee Bluff Formation · Wilcox Group11
- McBean Formation · Claiborne Group5
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group4
- Tuscahoma Formation · Wilcox Group2
- Seguin Formation2
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The named rock units Lirofusus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lirofusus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Lirofusus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
581 taxa- Turritella18 sites
- Pseudoliva vetusta13 sites
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta12 sites
- Pitar12 sites
- Architectonica11 sites
- Athleta10 sites
- Calyptraphorus10 sites
- Latirus9 sites
- Levifusus9 sites
- Macrocallista9 sites
- Sinum9 sites
- Bonellitia8 sites
- Cadulus8 sites
- Gemmula (Coronia)8 sites
- Levifusus pagodiformis8 sites
- Nuculana8 sites
- Ostrea8 sites
- Ancilla staminea7 sites
- Coronia childreni7 sites
- Crepidula lirata7 sites
- Dentalium7 sites
- Nucula7 sites
- Tellina7 sites
- Venericardia7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Lirofusus, 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
10 references- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda12
- Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals6
- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region6
- Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina3
- Ecological control of evolutionary rates in Paleocene - Eocene marine molluscs2
- Little lasting impact of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum on shallow marine mollusk faunas1
- The Molluscan Macrofauna of the Seguin Formation (Upper Paleocene) in Central Texas1
- Environmental and biological controls on the diversity and ecology of Late Cretaceous through early Paleogene marine ecosystems in the US Gulf Coastal Plain1
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)1
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area1
Each of the 34 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 Lirofusus
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lirofusus 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 itFasciolariinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1865