Lepidocyclus manniensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LepidocyclusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Rhynchotrematidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 100 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.8 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
6 occurrences of Lepidocyclus manniensis 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
6 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
5 formations
- Aleman Formation · Montoya Group2
- Mannie Formation1
- Welling Formation · Viola Group1
- Upham Formation · Montoya Group1
- Fernvale Formation1
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The named rock units Lepidocyclus manniensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lepidocyclus manniensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Lepidocyclus manniensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Hiscobeccus capax2 sites
- Lepidocyclus laddi2 sites
- Plaesiomys subquadratus2 sites
- Rhynchotrema iowense2 sites
- Anaphragma mirabile1 site
- Anazyga recurvirostra1 site
- Anolotichia ponderosa1 site
- Austinella kankakensis1 site
- Constellaria polystomella1 site
- Corynotrypa1 site
- Crepipora1 site
- Cyclonema bilix1 site
- Cyclonema minuta1 site
- Dalmanella1 site
- Diplotrypa1 site
- Eochonetes minerva1 site
- Favositella1 site
- Glyptorthis insculpta1 site
- Glyptorthis maquoketensis1 site
- Goniotrypa bilateralis1 site
- Hebertella occidentalis1 site
- Hebertella sinuata1 site
- Lepidocyclus cooperi1 site
- Lepidocyclus oblongus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Lepidocyclus manniensis, 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
5 references- Rhynchonellacea From the Montoya Group (Ordovician) of Trans-Pecos Texas2
- Articulate brachiopods of the Viola Formation (Ordovician) in the Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma1
- Rhynchonellacean Brachiopods from the Richmondian of Tennessee1
- Dalmanellidae from the Montoya Group (Ordovician) of Trans-Pecos Texas1
- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee1
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. 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 Lepidocyclus manniensis
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- iDigBio
- Credit
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- Licence
- CC0
- 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 itLepidocyclus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Foerste 1909)