Lycophoria

Lycophoria

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LycophoriidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Orthida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Orthida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Orthida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 475.6 Mya to 464.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 458 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 102 occurrencesOrdovician — about 102 of 102 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 4 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 6 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 6 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 11 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 14 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 13 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 12 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 11 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 5 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 4 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 4 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 2 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 1 occurrence458–457 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences475.6 Mya464.3 Mya487.4 Mya457.4 Mya

102 occurrences of Lycophoria 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

102 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

13 formations

Sillaoru — 59.87°N, 31.43°ESillaoru — 60.05°N, 32.59°ESillaoru — 59.88°N, 31.58°EObukhovo — 59.90°N, 32.35°EObukhovo — 59.87°N, 31.43°EObukhovo — 60.05°N, 32.59°EHolen — 57.15°N, 16.92°EHolen — 57.00°N, 16.82°EHolen — 57.29°N, 16.96°ESillaoru — 59.44°N, 27.22°ESillaoru — 59.42°N, 27.01°ELoobu — 59.42°N, 25.24°ELoobu — 59.44°N, 27.22°ELoobu — 59.48°N, 26.48°ELoobu — 59.44°N, 27.31°ELatorp — 58.00°N, 14.00°EKandle — 59.42°N, 24.75°EVolkhov — 59.87°N, 31.43°ELynna — 60.00°N, 32.56°ELeetse — 59.88°N, 31.59°EVexin — 58.46°N, 42.51°ELunskaya — 58.61°N, 39.51°EObukhovskaya — 58.13°N, 32.27°E

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The named rock units Lycophoria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 54 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lycophoria and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Lycophoria and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

207 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 102 sites for Lycophoria, 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

10 references

Each of the 102 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 content1

Picture of Lycophoria

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itLycophoriidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lahusen 1885