Neothyris lenticularis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NeothyrisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratellidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratellidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Terebratellidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 42 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 3.6 Mya.
3 occurrences of Neothyris lenticularis on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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 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 Neothyris lenticularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Neothyris lenticularis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Neothyris lenticularis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Ostrea3 sites
- Otodus auriculatus2 sites
- Scalaria2 sites
- Acervulina1 site
- Aeneator attenuatus nothopanax1 site
- Alcithoe (Leporemax) fusus resolutionensis1 site
- Anomalinoides1 site
- Astrononion1 site
- Atrina1 site
- Austrofusus1 site
- Baggina1 site
- Bairdia1 site
- Baryspira mucronata1 site
- Bolivina1 site
- Bolivina pseudoplicata1 site
- Bolivinita1 site
- Bradleya1 site
- Brissus1 site
- Bulimina1 site
- Bythoceratina1 site
- Calliostoma1 site
- Carcharodon1 site
- Cassidulina1 site
- Cassidulinoides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Neothyris lenticularis, 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
3 references- Marine Pliocene at Resolution Island, Dusky Sound, Fiordland (S156)1
- On the geology of the Clarendon phosphate deposits, Otago, New Zealand1
- Note sur la géologie et la paléontologie de la Patagonie1
Each 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
Media content1

Picture of Neothyris lenticularis
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- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Neothyris lenticularis 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 itNeothyris through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deshayes 1839)