Liches sp.
Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 452.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Liches sp. 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 Liches sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Liches sp. and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Liches sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Amplocularia sp.1 site
- Apatomorpha altaica1 site
- Bimuria1 site
- Calyptaulax1 site
- Cereurinus sp.1 site
- Dicellograptus1 site
- Dolerorthis1 site
- Eucrinuroides sp.1 site
- Harpes sp.1 site
- Homotellus sp.1 site
- Leptellina tennesseensis1 site
- Plectatrypa1 site
- Plectorthis altaicus1 site
- Ptyocephalina lentiformis1 site
- Remopleurides1 site
- Reteograptus geinitzianus1 site
- Rhynchonellida1 site
- Sceptaspis1 site
- Stenopareia1 site
- Thaleops1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Liches sp., 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 Liches sp.
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Liches sp. 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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What may have been alongside itFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.