Lepidocystis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of echinoderms}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Kinzercystis_durhami.svg

| image_caption = The lepidocystid Kinzercystis closely resembles Lepidocystis.

| fossil_range = Cambrian Series 2

| taxon = Lepidocystis

}}

Lepidocystis is a Palaeozoic genus of imbricate lepidocystoid eocrinoid, closely related to Kinzercystis,{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1111/j.1469-185x.1984.tb00411.x| title = The Early Radiation and Phylogeny of Echinoderms| year = 1984| last1 = Paul| first1 = C. R. C.| last2 = Smith| first2 = A. B.| journal = Biological Reviews| volume = 59| issue = 4| pages = 443–481| s2cid = 86572427}}{{Cite journal | doi=10.1098/rspb.2013.1197 | title=Cambrian spiral-plated echinoderms from Gondwana reveal the earliest pentaradial body plan | year=2013 | last1=Smith | first1=Andrew B. | last2=Zamora | first2=Samuel | journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | volume=280 | issue=1765 | pmid=23804624 | pmc=3712455 }} It bore a stalk, with which it attached to firm substrates;{{Cite journal | url =https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.06.018

| doi =10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.06.018

| title =The Cambrian Substrate Revolution and the early evolution of attachment in suspension-feeding echinoderms

| year =2017

| last1 =Zamora

| first1 =Samuel

| last2 =Deline

| first2 =Bradley

| last3 =Javier Álvaro

| first3 =J.

| last4 =Rahman

| first4 =Imran A.

| journal =Earth-Science Reviews

| volume =171

| pages =478–491

| bibcode =2017ESRv..171..478Z

| s2cid =134049725

}} and brachioles arising as lateral branches from its arms.{{cite journal | doi = 10.1111/j.1469-185X.1984.tb00411.x| title = The Early Radiation and Phylogeny of Echinoderms| year = 1984| last1 = Paul| first1 = C. R. C.| last2 = Smith| first2 = A. B.| journal = Biological Reviews| volume = 59| issue = 4| pages = 443–481| s2cid = 86572427}}

It is only known from the late Botomian = Cambrian Series 2 Kinzers Formation.{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1080/14772019.2018.1541485| title = Morphology, palaeoecology and phylogenetic interpretation of the Cambrian echinoderm Vyscystis (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)| year = 2019| last1 = Nohejlová| first1 = Martina| last2 = Nardin| first2 = Elise| last3 = Fatka| first3 = Oldřich| last4 = Kašička| first4 = Libor| last5 = Szabad| first5 = Michal| journal = Journal of Systematic Palaeontology| volume = 17| issue = 19| pages = 1619–1634| s2cid = 92231073}}