Lepidactis

No picture of Lepidactis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lepidactis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LepidasteridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Asteroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asteroidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Asteroidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Asteroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesSilurian470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences458.2 Mya430.6 Mya470.3 Mya425.8 Mya

3 occurrences of Lepidactis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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 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

3 formations

Much Wenlock — 52.50°N, 2.08°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.52°N, 2.10°WPierre Melière — 47.38°N, 1.33°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Lepidactis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lepidactis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Lepidactis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Lepidactis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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. 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 content0

No picture of Lepidactis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lepidactis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Lepidactis 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLepidasteridae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Spencer 1918