Lyrischapa
Noetling · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IndovolutinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Volutidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Volutidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Volutidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
40 occurrences of Lyrischapa 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
40 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
11 formations
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group9
- Llajas Formation8
- Juncal Formation5
- Bateque Formation2
- Ardath Formation · La Jolla Group2
- Unnamed Formation1
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The named rock units Lyrischapa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lyrischapa and its relatives
EoceneWhere Lyrischapa and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
329 taxa- Eocernina hannibali16 sites
- Cylichnina tantilla9 sites
- Turritella andersoni lawsoni9 sites
- Clavilithes tabulatus8 sites
- Pachycrommium clarki8 sites
- Architectonica (Stellaxis) cognata7 sites
- Ectinochilus (Macilentos) macilentus7 sites
- Glycymeris (Glycymerita) sagittata7 sites
- Ficopsis remondii6 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum6 sites
- Ranella domenginica6 sites
- Solena (Eosolen) novacularis6 sites
- Surculites mathewsonii6 sites
- Dentalium stentor5 sites
- Olivella mathewsonii5 sites
- Phalium (Semicassis) tuberculiformis5 sites
- Clavilithes4 sites
- Galeodea californica4 sites
- Neverita (Neverita) globosa4 sites
- Rimella supraplicata4 sites
- Rotularia (Rotularia) tejonense4 sites
- Schedocardia brewerii4 sites
- Trochocyathus striatus4 sites
- Turricula cooperi4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Lyrischapa, 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
16 references- Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Lakhra Formation (Earliest Eocene, Sindh, Pakistan): systematics, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography7
- Megapaleontology of the Eocene Llajas Formation, Simi Valley, California7
- Eocene molluscan paleontology of the Whitaker Peak area, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, California5
- Old World Tethyan Occurrences of Lyrischapa (Gastropoda; Volutidae) and Biogeographic Implications3
- Invertebrate Macropaleontolgy of the Clarke County Mississippi Area3
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda3
- Paleontology of the Eocene Bateque Formation, Baja California Sur, Mexico2
- Eocene molluscan stages and their correlation, San Diego area, California2
- Lower Eocene Gastropods from El Bosque Formation, Central Chiapas, Mexico1
- Faunal stability and environmental change in the middle Eocene Gulf Coastal Plain (PhD Thesis, Harvard University)1
- New molluscan faunas from the Eocene of South Carolina1
- A monograph on the Egyptian Paleocene and Eocene gastropods1
Each of the 40 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. 4 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 Lyrischapa
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Noetling
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lyrischapa 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 itIndovolutinae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Aldrich 1911