Lissocoelia ramosa
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LissocoeliaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Lithistida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Lithistida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Lithistida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lithistida
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Lissocoelia ramosa 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
7 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
- Mingan Formation4
- Badger Flat Formation · Mazourka Group2
- Antelope Valley Formation · Pogonip Group1
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The named rock units Lissocoelia ramosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lissocoelia ramosa and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Lissocoelia ramosa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Hudsonospongia minganensis4 sites
- Anthaspidella amplia3 sites
- Hudsonospongia irregularis3 sites
- Psarodictyum magnificum3 sites
- Zittelella varians3 sites
- Archaeoscyphia pulchra2 sites
- Calycocoelia typicalis2 sites
- Hudsonospongia duplicata2 sites
- Orthida2 sites
- Rhopalocoelia clarkii2 sites
- Anthaspidella clintoni1 site
- Anthaspidella traini1 site
- Archaeocyphia1 site
- Archaeoscyphia undulata1 site
- Blastoidocrinus nevadensis1 site
- Deltacystis symmetricus1 site
- Eospongia roemeri1 site
- Glyptocystis forbesi1 site
- Hadrocystis1 site
- Hesperocoelia typicalis1 site
- Hesperocoelia undulata1 site
- Hudsonospongia nodosa1 site
- Hyalostelia1 site
- Nevadocoelia grandis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Lissocoelia ramosa, 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
4 references- Lower and Middle Ordovician lithistid demosponges from the Mingan Islands, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Canada4
- Sponges and brachiopods from the Middle Ordovician Mazourka Formation, Independence quadrangle, California1
- Middle and Upper(?) Ordovician Rocks of Independence Quadrangle, California1
- A new early Ordovician sponge fauna1
Each of the 7 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 Lissocoelia ramosa 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 Lissocoelia ramosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lissocoelia ramosa 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 itLissocoelia through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassler 1927