Lisania

Lisania is an extinct genus of trilobites, and is the type genus of the family Lisaniidae. Members of the genus lived during the Cambrian Period, which lasted from approximately 542 to 488 million years ago.

Lisania

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LisaniidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Trilobita
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trilobita
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Trilobita
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Lisaniidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Trilobita

Time the record covers

At least 5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 504.5 Mya to 499.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 497 Mya.

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65 occurrences of Lisania 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

65 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

8 formations

Huaqiao — 28.72°N, 109.97°EHuaqiao — 28.39°N, 109.53°EHuaqiao — 29.10°N, 110.92°EAktas — 43.53°N, 69.95°EZhumabai — 43.53°N, 69.95°EKunzam La — 33.07°N, 77.23°EBaguamiao — 32.22°N, 108.42°EYangliugang — 31.37°N, 120.95°EPaotaishan — 31.38°N, 120.93°EChangshia — 35.50°N, 105.45°E

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The named rock units Lisania 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.

Lisania and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Lisania and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

74 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Lisania, 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

9 references

Each of the 65 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Lisania

Credit
Apokryltaros
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lisania was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1911