Liostracina

Searched as Liostracina joyeae. The Paleobiology Database treats Liostracina as the accepted name.

No picture of Liostracina 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 Liostracina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LiostracinidaePBDB
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.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 499 Mya and 497 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Liostracina 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

1 occurrences

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

Goyder — 23.61°S, 134.49°E

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The named rock units Liostracina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Liostracina and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Liostracina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

75 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Liostracina, 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

1 reference

Each 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 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 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 Liostracina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Liostracina 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLiostracinidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Monke 1903