Amecystis laevis

Amecystis laevis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmecystisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhombifera
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Rhombifera
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhombifera
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhombifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 4 occurrencesOrdovician457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453.8 Mya – 452.8 Mya457.8 Mya444.7 Mya

4 occurrences of Amecystis laevis on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

4 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

4 formations

Edinburg — 39.00°N, 78.40°WBobcaygeon — 44.58°N, 78.97°WPont-Rouge — 46.75°N, 71.70°WLexington Limestone — 37.83°N, 84.60°W

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

Amecystis laevis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Amecystis laevis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Amecystis laevis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 Amecystis laevis

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

No 3D scan of Amecystis laevis 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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What may have been alongside itAmecystis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Raymond 1921)