Lyonsia californica

Lyonsia californica

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
California lyonsiaPBDB
Sits inside
LyonsiaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Lyonsiidae
Life habit
deep infaunalPBDB, for Lyonsia
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Lyonsiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Miocene — about 0 of 11 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 11 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 9 of 11 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 0 of 11 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences5.3–5.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.1–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–4.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.5–4.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.3–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.9–3.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.7–3.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences3.5–3.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.3–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.1–2.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.9–2.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.7–2.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences778 ka–583 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence583 ka–389 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence389 ka–194 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence194 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences2.58 Mya129 ka5.8 Mya0 Mya

11 occurrences of Lyonsia californica 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

11 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

5 formations

Palos Verdes Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.63°N, 117.95°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.74°N, 118.28°WWildcat — 40.64°N, 124.31°WFernando — 34.05°N, 118.25°WTimms Point Silt — 33.71°N, 118.27°W

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The named rock units Lyonsia californica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lyonsia californica and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Lyonsia californica and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

589 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Lyonsia californica, 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

Each of the 11 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 Lyonsia californica

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Lyonsia californica was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1837