Lyria hannibali

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LyriaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.
8 occurrences of Lyria hannibali on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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 Lyria hannibali has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lyria hannibali and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Lyria hannibali and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Turritella infragranulata pachecoensis8 sites
- Mesalia martinezensis6 sites
- Retipirula crassitesta6 sites
- Cucullaea mathewsonii5 sites
- Dentalium cooperi5 sites
- Macrocallista stantoni5 sites
- Amauropsis martinezensis4 sites
- Glycimeris major4 sites
- Pseudoperissolax tricarnatus4 sites
- Crassatella3 sites
- Lacunaria striata3 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum3 sites
- Nuculana (Saccella) gabbii3 sites
- Sulcobuccinum howardi3 sites
- Sycum mucronatum3 sites
- Brachysphingus gibbosus2 sites
- Brachysphingus sinuatus2 sites
- Cancellaria2 sites
- Crassatella branneri2 sites
- Euspira susanaensis2 sites
- Flabellum cuneiforme2 sites
- Glycymerita major2 sites
- Gyrodes robustus2 sites
- Macrocallista2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Lyria hannibali, 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- A contribution to the paleontology of the Martinez Eocene of California3
- Geology of the eastern part of the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles County, California2
- Geology and oil resources of a part of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California2
- Stratigraphic and faunal relations of the Martinez to the Chico and Tejon of Southern California1
Each of the 8 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 Lyria hannibali
- 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 Lyria hannibali 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 itLyria through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Waring 1917