Levicidaris
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TriadocidaridaePBDB
- Diet
- grazer, deposit feederPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Echinoidea
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
5 occurrences of Levicidaris on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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- Late Triassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Levicidaris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Levicidaris and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Levicidaris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
95 taxa- Triadocidaris3 sites
- Anthostylis acanthophora2 sites
- Chondrocoenia idahoensis2 sites
- Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli2 sites
- Distichophyllia norica2 sites
- Phacelophyllia suttonensis2 sites
- Retiophyllia dawsoni2 sites
- Thamnasteria smithi2 sites
- Thaumastocoelia2 sites
- Zardinechinus2 sites
- ? Mesodiadema sp.1 site
- Actinodontophoridae1 site
- Ampakabastraea cowichanensis1 site
- Anaulocidaris1 site
- Astraeomorpha1 site
- Astraeomorpha confusa minor1 site
- Astraeomorpha crassisepta1 site
- Aulacocerida1 site
- Brochidiella idahoensis1 site
- Cardinia1 site
- Cassianella1 site
- Cassianocrinus tetarakontadactylus1 site
- Chelocrinus cassianus1 site
- Chondrocoenia ohmanni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Levicidaris, 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
3 references- Echinoids from the Triassic (St Cassian) of Italy, their lantern supports and a revised phylogeny of Triassic echinoids.3
- An Upper Triassic reefal limestone, southern Vancouver Island, B.C.1
- Paleoecology, structure, and distribution of Triassic coral buildups in western North America1
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. 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 Levicidaris 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 Levicidaris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Levicidaris 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTriadocidaridae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kier 1977