Liobole
Liobole is an extinct genus of lower Carboniferous proetid trilobite.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchegoninaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Proetida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Phillipsiidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 13 million years on record.
The record covers at least 353.7 Mya to 339.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 330.3 Mya.
57 occurrences of Liobole on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
57 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
12 formations
- Erdbach Limestone Formation18
- Radlin Formation7
- Erdbach Formation7
- Wangyou Formation6
- Kronhof Limestone Formation4
- Kronhof Limestone Formation3
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The named rock units Liobole has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Liobole and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Liobole and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
125 taxa- Bollandia5 sites
- Winterbergia5 sites
- Geigibole4 sites
- Cummingella (Cummingella) auge3 sites
- Cystispina (Krambedrysia) diversa3 sites
- Dayinaspis dayinensis3 sites
- Erdbachaspis richteri3 sites
- Proliobole3 sites
- Proliobole nitida3 sites
- Semiproetus (Brevibole) brevispina3 sites
- Semiproetus (Macrobole)3 sites
- Tawstockia3 sites
- Amphiroaspis amphiro2 sites
- Archegonus (Phillibole)2 sites
- Archegonus (Phillibole) culmicus2 sites
- Archegonus (Phillibole) nehdenensis nehdenensis2 sites
- Bitumulina prymno2 sites
- Bollandia persephone2 sites
- Brevibole2 sites
- Carbonocoryphe2 sites
- Carbonoproetus zeuxo2 sites
- Chlupacula2 sites
- Chlupacula (Avenconia) canpuigensis2 sites
- Coombewoodia ruethenensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Liobole, 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
15 references- 100 Jahre Trilobiten-Forschung in den Erdbacher Kalken (Unter-Karbon) - Zusammenstellung bisheriger Ergebnisse und Beschreibung neuer Taxa13
- Famennian and Lower Carboniferous Cyrtosymbolinae (Trilobita) from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland8
- Eine neue Trilobiten-Fauna aus dem Mississippium von Rösenbeck (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland)7
- Trilobiten aus dem Karbon von Cima di Plotta (Karnische Alpen, N-Italien).6
- Trilobite fauna at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in South China (S-Guizhou and N-Guangxi)6
- Subspecies kluges: a pointless taxonomic database to create species opinions for subspecies that then will be over-ruled and allow subspecies occurrences to be recognized as the subspecies rather than the parent species3
- Neue Daten zu Trilobiten der Hillershausen-Formation (Viséum, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Deutschland)2
- Trilobiten aus dem Unter-Karbon des Katalonischen Kütengebirges (NE-Spanien)2
- New Mississippian trilobite association from the Brno vicinity and its significance (Moravian Karst), Czech Republic)2
- Kulm trilobites (Lower Carboniferous) from S-China2
- Trilobiten aus den Erdbacher Kalken (Unter-Karbon) von Steeden in Hessen2
- Trilobites from the Lower Carboniferous of eastern Australia1
Each of the 57 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Liobole
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- AtmosPhysicist
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Liobole 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.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Liobole”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itArchegoninae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Richter and Richter 1949)