Lepidocyclus rectangularis

No picture of Lepidocyclus rectangularis 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 Lepidocyclus rectangularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LepidocyclusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At most 4.7 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 450.2 Mya and 445.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Lepidocyclus rectangularis 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

1 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

1 formation

Fremont — 38.00°N, 105.00°W

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

Lepidocyclus rectangularis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Lepidocyclus rectangularis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lepidocyclus rectangularis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

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No picture of Lepidocyclus rectangularis 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 Lepidocyclus rectangularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Lepidocyclus rectangularis 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 itLepidocyclus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang 1949