Conolichas

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EchinolichiniPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lichida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Lichidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 464.3 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.1 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
11 occurrences of Conolichas on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
11 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
9 formations
- Cwm Rhiwarth Formation2
- Khrevitsa Formation2
- Sanqiaojia Formation1
- Gryazno Formation1
- Holen Formation1
- Öjlemyr Formation1
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The named rock units Conolichas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conolichas and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Conolichas and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
152 taxa- Illaenus4 sites
- Broeggerolithus nicholsoni3 sites
- Brongniartella minor3 sites
- Chasmops3 sites
- Chasmops marginatus3 sites
- Flexicalymene planimarginata3 sites
- Howellites3 sites
- Kjaerina3 sites
- Kloucekia apiculata3 sites
- Scopelochasmops cambrensis3 sites
- Asaphus2 sites
- Bellerophontidae2 sites
- Bicuspina2 sites
- Broeggerolithus2 sites
- Broeggerolithus broeggeri2 sites
- Brongniartella2 sites
- Bryozoa2 sites
- Colaptomena expansa2 sites
- Colaptomena expansa prolata2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Cybellela dentata2 sites
- Cyrtolites2 sites
- Cyrtometopella rosenthali2 sites
- Dalmanella horderleyensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Conolichas, 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
8 references- Trilobite Biostratigraphy in the Middle and Upper Ordovician of Western Leningrad Region3
- Caradoc marine benthic communities of the South Berwyn Hills, North Wales2
- Late Ordovician rostroconchs (Mollusca) from fluvial erratics in northwestern Europe1
- Legend of the Central European series of sheets of the State Geological Map of the Russian Federation, scale 1:1,000,000 (third generation)1
- Mid-Caradoc magmatism in central Llyn, rhyolite petrogenesis, and the evolution of the Snowdonia volcanic corridor in NW Wales1
- Stratigraphic Summary of the Southwestern Region of China1
- Трилобиты1
- The Asaphus Limestone in northernmost Öland1
Each of the 11 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 Conolichas
- 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 Conolichas 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 itEchinolichini through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dames 1877)