Lonsdaleia

Searched as Lonsdaleia floriformis floriformis. The Paleobiology Database treats Lonsdaleia as the accepted name.

Lonsdaleia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LonsdaleiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At most 9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 335.9 Mya and 326.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 6 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferous336–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–334 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences334–333 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences333–333 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences333–332 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences332–332 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences332–331 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences331–331 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences331–331 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences331–330 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences336.4 Mya326.4 Mya

6 occurrences of Lonsdaleia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

6 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

6 formations

Hawes Limestone I — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGayle Shale — 54.30°N, 2.15°WGayle Limestone II — 54.30°N, 2.15°WHardrow Scar Limestone III — 54.30°N, 2.15°WThree Yard Limestone VII — 54.30°N, 2.15°WMain Limestone IX — 54.30°N, 2.15°W

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

Lonsdaleia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Lonsdaleia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

453 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Lonsdaleia, 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 6 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

Media content1

Picture of Lonsdaleia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Lonsdaleia 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itLonsdaleiidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McCoy 1849