Liostracina joyceae
No picture of Liostracina joyceae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Liostracina joyceae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LiostracinaPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Ptychopariina
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Liostracinidae
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Trilobita
Time the record covers
At most 2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 499 Mya and 497 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Liostracina joyceae on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
3 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
2 formations
- Shannon Formation · Pertaoorrta Group2
- Goyder Formation · Pertaoorrta Group1
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The named rock units Liostracina joyceae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Liostracina joyceae and its relatives
CambrianWhere Liostracina joyceae and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Hadragnostus helixensis3 sites
- Blackwelderia repanda2 sites
- Hebeia stewarti2 sites
- Kobayashiella heritagensis2 sites
- Trephina ranfordi2 sites
- ? Paraacidaspis priscilla1 site
- Acrotretidae1 site
- Adelogonus prichardi1 site
- Apoptopegma joyceae1 site
- Biaverta1 site
- Echinodermata1 site
- Henadoparia integra1 site
- Hyolithida1 site
- Leiostegiidae1 site
- Mongolitubulus1 site
- Monkaspis cf. traversi1 site
- Monkaspis cf. travesi1 site
- Nepeidae1 site
- Opisthotreta1 site
- Stittia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Liostracina joyceae, 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 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Liostracina joyceae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Liostracina joyceae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Liostracina joyceae 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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What may have been alongside itLiostracina through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Smith et al. 2018