Lichenocrinus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CrinoideaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Life habit
- upper-level epifaunalPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Crinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 8.6 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
34 occurrences of Lichenocrinus 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
34 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
22 formations
- Denley Limestone Formation · Lower Trenton Group5
- Kope Formation4
- Liberty Formation2
- Bobcaygeon Formation · Simcoe Group2
- Stonington Formation2
- Sugar River Limestone Formation · Lower Trenton Group2
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The named rock units Lichenocrinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lichenocrinus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Lichenocrinus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
574 taxa- Platystrophia16 sites
- Lophospira15 sites
- Rafinesquina15 sites
- Amplexopora14 sites
- Conularia14 sites
- Hallopora14 sites
- Isotelus13 sites
- Petrocrania13 sites
- Trematis13 sites
- Ambonychia12 sites
- Cornulites12 sites
- Bythopora11 sites
- Corynotrypa11 sites
- Ctenodonta11 sites
- Flexicalymene11 sites
- Homotrypa11 sites
- Modiolopsis11 sites
- Sinuites11 sites
- Zygospira11 sites
- Ceramoporella10 sites
- Cyclora10 sites
- Ostracoda10 sites
- Prasopora10 sites
- Batostoma9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Lichenocrinus, 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
16 references- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region10
- Fossil communities of the lower Trenton Group (Middle Ordovician) of central and northwestern New York State4
- Fossil Communities of the Middle Trenton Group (Ordovician) of New York State3
- The Richmond Formation of Michigan3
- Palaeozoic geology of the Lake Simcoe Area, Ontario2
- Echinodermata of the Ottawa Formation of the Ottawa-St. Lawrence lowland2
- The Crinoidea of Anticosti Island, Quebec (Late Ordovician to Early Silurian)1
- Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA1
- R. Titus unpublished collections1
- Upper Ordovician tempestites from Swatara Gap, Pennsylvania: depositional processes affecting the sediments and paleoecology of the fossil faunas1
- The occurrence of pelecypods in early Paleozoic epeiric-sea environments, Late Ordovician of the Cincinnati, Ohio area1
- Preservation and paleoecology of a Middle Ordovician hardground community1
Each of the 34 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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 Lichenocrinus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lichenocrinus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1866