Lichas laciniatus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LichasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lichida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Lichidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 7.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
10 occurrences of Lichas laciniatus 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
10 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
8 formations
- Loka Formation2
- Boda Limestone Formation2
- Cystoid Limestone Formation1
- Haverford Formation1
- Loka Fm Formation1
- Keisley Formation1
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The named rock units Lichas laciniatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lichas laciniatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Lichas laciniatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
219 taxa- Lichas affinis5 sites
- Sphaerexochus calvus3 sites
- Amphilichas lineatus2 sites
- Amphilichas wahlenbergi2 sites
- Dalmanella testudinaria2 sites
- Decoroproetus asellus2 sites
- Diacanthaspis2 sites
- Dicoelosia indenta2 sites
- Dicranopeltis polytomus2 sites
- Encrinurus striatus2 sites
- Grewingkia contexta2 sites
- Hadromeros clasonii2 sites
- Harpidella2 sites
- Hibbertia costatus2 sites
- Holotrachelus punctillosus2 sites
- Illaenus linnarssoni2 sites
- Leptaena (Leptaena)2 sites
- Leptaena rugosa2 sites
- Ovalocephalus tetrasulcatus2 sites
- Paraphillipsinella2 sites
- Pharostoma leptaenarum2 sites
- Phorocephala2 sites
- Prionocheilus obtusus2 sites
- Ristnacrinus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Lichas laciniatus, 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- The Trilobites of the Leptæna Limestone in Dalarne6
- The Ordovician trilobites from the Iberian Chains in the province of Aragon, NE Spain, 1: The trilobites of the Cystoid Limestone (Ashgill Series)1
- Upper Ordovician trilobites from the Zap Valley, South East Turkey1
- Ordovician trilobites from Chedao, Gansu Province, north-west China1
- The biostratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician and Lower Silurian of south-west Dyfed, with comments of the Hirnantia fauna1
Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Lichas laciniatus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Lichas laciniatus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lovén 1845)