Lichenaria goodrichi

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LichenariaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Lichenaria goodrichi 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Lichenaria goodrichi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lichenaria goodrichi and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Lichenaria goodrichi and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Camerella plicata1 site
- Dinorthis atavoides1 site
- Lambeophyllum1 site
- Orthoceratidae1 site
- Palaeophyllum rugosum1 site
- Paucicrura rogata1 site
- Platystrophia crassa1 site
- Ptychopleurella arthuri1 site
- Streptelasma tennysoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Lichenaria goodrichi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Lichenaria goodrichi
- 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 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 itLichenaria through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1963