Lycophron
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AsaphidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 1.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 469.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
19 occurrences of Lycophron 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
19 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
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The named rock units Lycophron has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lycophron and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Lycophron and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Hungioides acutinasus7 sites
- Norasaphus (Norasaphites) vesiculosus6 sites
- Eisarkaspis etheridgei4 sites
- Carolinites genacinaca3 sites
- Nambeetella embolion3 sites
- Prosopiscus3 sites
- Annamitella strigifrons2 sites
- Carolinites ekphymosus2 sites
- Eisarkaspis irritans2 sites
- Madiganaspis2 sites
- Norasaphus (Norasaphites) monroeae2 sites
- Norasaphus (Norasaphus) skalis2 sites
- Trigonodus2 sites
- Annamitella brachyops1 site
- Basilicus1 site
- Basilicus thorntoni1 site
- Carolinites1 site
- Copidens browni1 site
- Cyrtodonta1 site
- Drepanoistodus1 site
- Gogoella brevis1 site
- Helicotoma1 site
- Noradonta shergoldi1 site
- Orthidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Lycophron, 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- Early Ordovician trilobites, Nora Formation, central Australia12
- Ordovician trilobites from the Horn Valley Siltstone and basal Stairway Sandstone, Amadeus Basin, Northern Territory4
- Trilobites from the Middle Ordovician Stairway Sandstone, Amadeus Basin, central Australia2
- Australian Ordovician pelecypod molluscs1
Each of the 19 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 Lycophron 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 Lycophron, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lycophron 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 itAsaphidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fortey and Shergold 1984