Lyssacinosa

No picture of Lyssacinosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Lyssacinosa itself, so it was not used. 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 Lyssacinosa, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 493 million years on record.

The record covers at least 505.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 511.2 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Cambrian — about 6 of 161 occurrencesOrdovician — about 46 of 161 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 5 of 161 occurrencesDevonian — about 5 of 161 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 9 of 161 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 25 of 161 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 7 of 161 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 161 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 161 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 8 of 161 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 161 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 6 of 161 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 161 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 25 of 161 occurrencesPaleocene — about 1 of 161 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 161 occurrencesOligocene — about 1 of 161 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 161 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 161 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 161 occurrences521–504 Mya — about 3 occurrences504–487 Mya — about 3 occurrences487–469 Mya — about 2 occurrences469–452 Mya — about 23 occurrences452–434 Mya — about 21 occurrences434–417 Mya — about 5 occurrences400–382 Mya — about 1 occurrence382–365 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences365–348 Mya — about 4 occurrences348–330 Mya — about 1 occurrence330–313 Mya — about 3 occurrences313–295 Mya — about 5 occurrences295–278 Mya — about 7 occurrences278–261 Mya — about 17 occurrences261–243 Mya — about 11 occurrences243–226 Mya — about 3 occurrences226–209 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences209–191 Mya — about 7 occurrences191–174 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences174–156 Mya — about 5 occurrences156–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–87 Mya — about 15 occurrences87–70 Mya — about 10 occurrences70–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–35 Mya — about 7 occurrences35–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences505.3 Mya11.63 Mya521 Mya0 Mya

161 occurrences of Lyssacinosa on record, most of them in the Ordovician. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

161 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

62 formations

Arnager Limestone — 55.05°N, 14.78°EBell Canyon — 31.83°N, 104.87°WBell Canyon — 31.93°N, 104.72°WBell Canyon — 31.25°N, 104.51°WMalongulli — 33.58°S, 148.89°EBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WBone Spring — 31.46°N, 104.91°WBone Spring — 31.50°N, 104.96°WBone Spring — 31.43°N, 104.91°WBone Spring — 31.24°N, 104.76°WBuilth Volcanic — 52.25°N, 3.25°WThaynes — 40.03°N, 111.51°WThaynes — 40.65°N, 111.61°WThaynes — 40.77°N, 111.83°WThaynes — 39.56°N, 115.22°WThaynes — 39.34°N, 113.70°WSappington — 46.01°N, 112.54°WSappington — 45.78°N, 111.81°WSappington — 45.88°N, 111.67°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WCherry Canyon — 32.05°N, 104.95°WCherry Canyon — 32.06°N, 104.94°WCherry Canyon — 31.58°N, 105.06°WVic Marls — 41.85°N, 2.23°EDikanre — 42.38°N, 89.77°ECape Phillips — 75.14°N, 93.90°WCape Phillips — 75.75°N, 94.40°WCastle Hayne — 35.25°N, 78.07°WRed River — 52.13°N, 97.52°WJohvi — 59.34°N, 27.41°EJohvi — 58.74°N, 24.08°EJohvi — 58.86°N, 24.08°EAberdouz — 32.37°N, 4.55°WKarchowice Beds — 50.58°N, 18.20°ECathedral Mountain — 30.41°N, 103.11°WCathedral Mountain — 30.30°N, 103.30°WGraford — 33.23°N, 97.83°WRoberts Mountains — 41.43°N, 114.94°WVirgin — 37.05°N, 113.68°WAluvere — 59.34°N, 27.41°EWenchang — 30.50°N, 119.37°EWenchang — 30.63°N, 119.47°EGilwern Volcanic — 52.24°N, 3.38°WMarjum Limestone — 39.22°N, 113.40°W

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The named rock units Lyssacinosa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 38 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lyssacinosa and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Lyssacinosa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

1,623 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 104 sites for Lyssacinosa, 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

66 references

Each of the 161 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. 54 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Lyssacinosa was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Lyssacinosa itself, so it was not used.

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

No 3D scan of Lyssacinosa 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. Zittel 1877