Lissochonetes
Searched as Lissochonetes semicircularis solida. The Paleobiology Database treats Lissochonetes as the accepted name.

Wagner, Steve · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SvalbardiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Chonetidina
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Lissochonetes on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
5 occurrences- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Lissochonetes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lissochonetes and its relatives
PermianWhere Lissochonetes and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
933 taxa- Crinoidea85 sites
- Hustedia mormoni73 sites
- Neochonetes granulifer69 sites
- Echinoidea64 sites
- Crurithyris planoconvexa50 sites
- Derbyia48 sites
- Composita subtilita43 sites
- Crurithyris expansa43 sites
- Hystriculina wabashensis42 sites
- Rhipidomella carbonaria41 sites
- Fusulinidae40 sites
- Ostracoda38 sites
- Gastropoda37 sites
- Reticulatia huecoensis37 sites
- Brachiopoda indet.35 sites
- Bryozoa indet.35 sites
- Holothuroidea35 sites
- Pisces indet.35 sites
- Stelleroidea indet.35 sites
- Nautiloidea indet.34 sites
- Scaphopoda33 sites
- Foraminifera indet.31 sites
- Trepostomata31 sites
- Productidina30 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 220 sites for Lissochonetes, 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
1 reference- Strophomenoid brachiopods from the higher Permian faunas of the Back Creek Group in the Bowen Basin5
Each of the 5 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 content2

Picture of Lissochonetes
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Wagner, Steve
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
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 itSvalbardiinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dunbar and Condra 1932)