Lycettia lunularis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LycettiaPBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 170.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 16 of 17 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic185–184 Mya — about 2 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 8 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 6 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences171–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182.9 Mya170.9 Mya184.7 Mya164.8 Mya

17 occurrences of Lycettia lunularis on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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

17 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

3 formations

Turmiel — 40.43°N, 1.42°WTurmiel — 40.40°N, 1.50°WTurmiel Fm — 40.40°N, 1.50°WMatuo — 33.33°N, 92.00°E

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The named rock units Lycettia lunularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lycettia lunularis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Lycettia lunularis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Lycettia lunularis, 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

4 references

Each of the 17 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

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No picture of Lycettia lunularis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lycettia lunularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLycettia through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lycett 1857)