Tonicia (Lucilina)

Lucilina lamellosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835), a relative of Tonicia (Lucilina) — not Tonicia (Lucilina) itself

Not Tonicia (Lucilina). This is Lucilina lamellosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835), a relative — both are Chitonidae.

Carole BERNARD · CC BY-NC 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
ToniciaPBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Polyplacophora
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Polyplacophora

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 6 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesHolocene — about 1 of 6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.2–2.8 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.333 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

6 occurrences of Tonicia (Lucilina) on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

6 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

2 formations

Palau Limestone — 7.37°N, 134.58°ENdalithoni Limestone — 17.23°S, 178.95°E

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The named rock units Tonicia (Lucilina) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tonicia (Lucilina) and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Tonicia (Lucilina) and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

55 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tonicia (Lucilina), 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 reference

Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Lucilina lamellosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Carole BERNARD
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Tonicia (Lucilina) was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTonicia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dall 1882)