Lioparia

Lioparia is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil marine arthropods, the trilobites. It lived from 501 to 490 million years ago during the Dresbachian faunal stage of the late Cambrian Period.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AsaphiscidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Asaphiscidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 7.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 504.5 Mya to 497 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 494.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesCambrian507–506 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 1 occurrence505–504 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences504–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences497–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–496 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences496–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–495 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences504.5 Mya497 Mya507 Mya493.7 Mya

6 occurrences of Lioparia on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

6 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

5 formations

Hsuchuang — 34.63°N, 112.97°EMantou — 36.42°N, 116.88°EHuaqiao — 28.05°N, 109.42°EZhangxia — 34.75°N, 110.62°EAktas — 43.53°N, 69.95°E

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

Lioparia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Lioparia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Lioparia, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

5 references

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Lioparia 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAsaphiscidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lorenz 1905