Lepidocentrus

No picture of Lepidocentrus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Lepidocentrus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LepidocentridaePBDB
Diet
grazerPBDB, for Perischoechinoidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Perischoechinoidea
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Perischoechinoidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 11 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 10 of 11 occurrencesDevonian432–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–391 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 3 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 1 occurrence385–383 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences426.7 Mya383.4 Mya432 Mya381 Mya

11 occurrences of Lepidocentrus on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

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

8 formations

Grzegorzowice — 50.88°N, 21.03°EAhbach — 50.33°N, 6.78°ECelechovice Limestone — 49.57°N, 17.25°EWallen Slate — 51.40°N, 8.58°EMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.52°N, 2.10°WMiddle Loogh — 50.22°N, 6.65°ELoogh — 50.24°N, 6.71°EHunsrück Slate — 50.12°N, 7.83°E

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

Lepidocentrus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Lepidocentrus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

175 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Lepidocentrus, 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

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 content0

No picture of Lepidocentrus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Lepidocentrus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Lepidocentrus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLepidocentridae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller 1857