Lutetia parisiensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Kellyella (Lutetia)PBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Kelliella
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Kelliella
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Kelliella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
6 occurrences of Lutetia parisiensis 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
6 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
4 formations
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group3
- Earnley Formation · Bracklesham Group1
- London Clay Formation1
- Barton Clay Formation1
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The named rock units Lutetia parisiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lutetia parisiensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Lutetia parisiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
676 taxa- Cardium (Orthocardium) porulosum5 sites
- Corbula5 sites
- Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica5 sites
- Crassatella5 sites
- Odostomia5 sites
- Pitar (Calpitaria) sulcatarius5 sites
- Ringicula5 sites
- Adeorbis4 sites
- Asthenotoma4 sites
- Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata4 sites
- Clavilithes4 sites
- Costacallista laevigata4 sites
- Crassispira (Tripia) granulata4 sites
- Cyclocardia (Arcturellina) elegans4 sites
- Cylichna4 sites
- Drillia4 sites
- Euspira4 sites
- Gemmula4 sites
- Nemocardium4 sites
- Omalaxis4 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) plagiaulax4 sites
- Strepsidura4 sites
- Trigonodesma lissa4 sites
- Tuba4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Lutetia parisiensis, 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
5 references- Distribution of Mollusca in Units S1 to S9 of the Selsey Formation (middle Lutetian), Selsey Peninsula, West Sussex2
- The Early Eocene London Clay Formation mollusc fauna of the former Bursledon Brickworks, Lower Swanwick, Hampshire1
- Fossils from the Bracklesham Group exposed in the M27 Motorway excavations, Southampton, Hampshire1
- Account of Excavations into the Campanile Bed (Eocene, Selsey Formation) at Stubbington, Hants1
- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire1
Each of the 6 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 Lutetia parisiensis
- 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 Lutetia parisiensis 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 itKellyella (Lutetia) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Deshayes 1860