Lyonsia venturaensis
No picture of Lyonsia venturaensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lyonsia venturaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- 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 most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Lyonsia venturaensis 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Lyonsia venturaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lyonsia venturaensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Lyonsia venturaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Mactromeris tejonensis2 sites
- Microcallista (Costacallista) conradiana meganosensis2 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum2 sites
- Oliva meganosensis2 sites
- Pseudocardium meganosensis2 sites
- Turritella meganosensis2 sites
- Turritella merriami2 sites
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) cowlitzensis1 site
- Brachysphingus mammilatus1 site
- Calorebama dilleri1 site
- Corbula diaboli1 site
- Crassatella meganosensis1 site
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) cretacea1 site
- Drillia hartleyensis1 site
- Ficopsis meganosensis1 site
- Flabellum stantoni1 site
- Galeodea meganosensis1 site
- Gari (Gobraeus)1 site
- Gemmula diabloensis1 site
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) major meganosensis1 site
- Jouannetia1 site
- Miltha (Miltha) meganosensis1 site
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii1 site
- Pedalion1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lyonsia venturaensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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
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No picture of Lyonsia venturaensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lyonsia venturaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lyonsia venturaensis 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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What may have been alongside itLyonsia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Clark and Woodford 1927