Lycettia

Lycettia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MytilidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mytilidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Mytilidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Mytilidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
lagoonal,coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanic,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Mytilidae

Time the record covers

At least 120 million years on record.

The record covers at least 192.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 111 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 29 of 111 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 111 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 21 of 111 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 111 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 51 of 111 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 111 occurrences202–198 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences198–193 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences193–188 Mya — about 4 occurrences188–184 Mya — about 10 occurrences184–179 Mya — about 12 occurrences179–174 Mya — about 2 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 1 occurrence170–165 Mya — about 4 occurrences165–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–156 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences156–151 Mya — about 12 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 8 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences110–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 4 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 31 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 14 occurrences192.9 Mya72.2 Mya202 Mya63 Mya

111 occurrences of Lycettia on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

111 occurrences

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

25 formations

Severn — 38.80°N, 77.00°WSevern — 38.89°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.92°N, 76.85°WAlcobaca — 39.32°N, 9.35°WPiedra Pintada — 40.12°S, 70.27°WPiedra Pintada — 39.87°S, 70.48°WPiedra Pintada — 39.97°S, 70.47°WPiedra Pintada — 40.15°S, 70.30°WEnokuchi — 32.34°N, 130.37°EEnokuchi — 32.31°N, 130.33°EProvidence — 31.73°N, 85.12°WProvidence — 31.76°N, 85.13°WProvidence — 31.89°N, 85.21°WProvidence — 31.82°N, 85.00°WPeedee — 33.90°N, 79.43°WPeedee — 33.83°N, 79.25°WOwl Creek — 34.75°N, 88.93°WOwl Creek — 34.63°N, 88.84°WOwl Creek — 37.00°N, 89.87°WTurmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WTurmiel — 40.40°N, 1.50°WPrairie Bluff — 34.63°N, 88.84°WPrairie Bluff — 34.25°N, 88.97°WPrairie Bluff — 33.79°N, 88.97°WQoimaco — 33.77°N, 91.33°EQoimaco — 33.95°N, 91.23°EQoimaco — 33.25°N, 90.50°ETurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WChiwapa — 34.63°N, 88.94°WChiwapa — 34.51°N, 88.93°WNacatoch Sand — 32.59°N, 96.31°WPuchenque — 35.43°S, 69.92°WCorsicana Marl — 29.83°N, 97.84°WAguja — 29.83°N, 103.25°WEl Cholo — 32.28°S, 70.03°WSuwa — 33.33°N, 92.00°EMatuo — 33.33°N, 92.00°EMikasa Sandstone — 43.25°N, 141.95°EBanos del Flaco — 33.83°S, 70.33°WIshido — 36.07°N, 138.87°ETres Esquinas — 34.92°S, 69.77°WRipley — 35.29°N, 88.60°W

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The named rock units Lycettia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 34 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lycettia and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Lycettia and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

952 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 98 sites for Lycettia, 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

Each of the 111 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 Lycettia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Lycettia 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 itMytilidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cox 1937