Liomegalaspides
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- NobiliasaphinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Asaphida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Asaphida
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Asaphidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 461.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
52 occurrences of Liomegalaspides 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
52 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
10 formations
- Dawan Formation30
- Chaochiapa Formation5
- Dawangou Formation5
- Siliangssu Formation4
- Zhitai Formation2
- Meitan Formation2
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The named rock units Liomegalaspides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Liomegalaspides and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Liomegalaspides and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
140 taxa- Pseudocalymene transversa12 sites
- Ningkianites8 sites
- Ningkianolithus8 sites
- Nileus walcotti7 sites
- Hanchungolithinae6 sites
- Illaenus sinensis6 sites
- Rhombampyx yii6 sites
- Carolinites genacinaca genacinaca5 sites
- Mioptychopyge trinodosa5 sites
- Zhenganites xinjiangensis5 sites
- Agerina elongata4 sites
- Carolinites genacinaca4 sites
- Didymograptus4 sites
- Euorthisina4 sites
- Hexacopyge nasuta4 sites
- Ovalocephalus primitivus extraneus4 sites
- Baltoniodus3 sites
- Birmanites brevicus3 sites
- Geragnostus3 sites
- Hanchungolithus3 sites
- Mimella3 sites
- Neseuretus shensiensis3 sites
- Niobe (Niobella) obscura3 sites
- Ovalocephalus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 50 sites for Liomegalaspides, 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
11 references- Ordovician trilobites from the lower part of the Dawan Formation (Floian-Dapingian) at Huanghuachang, Yichang, Hubei, southern China18
- Early Ordovician (Arenig) trilobite palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the South China Plate13
- Ordovician trilobites from the Dawangou Formation, Kalpin, Xinjiang, north-west China5
- Stratigraphic Summary of the Southwestern Region of China4
- On the Ordovician trilobites in central China3
- The global stratotype section and point for the base of the Middle Ordovician Series and the Third Stage (Dapingian)2
- Arenig trilobite associations and faunal changes in Southern Shaanxi, China2
- Arenig trilobite associations of Daping, Yichang, Hubei, South China2
- Brachiopods from the Dashaba Formation (Middle Ordovician) of Sichuan Province, south-west China1
- Early Ordovician Bivalves from Dali, West Yunnan, China1
- Biostratigraphy of the Yangtze Gorge Area. Part (2) Early Paleozoic Era1
Each of the 52 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.
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No picture of Liomegalaspides 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 Liomegalaspides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Liomegalaspides 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. Lu and Chang 1974