Anartiocystis

Anartiocystis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CallocystitidaePBDB
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 5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 445.5 Mya to 440.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.6 Mya to 432.9 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 5 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 5 occurrencesSilurian450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–441 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences445.5 Mya440.5 Mya450.1 Mya432.4 Mya

5 occurrences of Anartiocystis 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

5 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

Brassfield — 39.34°N, 85.48°WBrassfield — 39.81°N, 83.98°WBrainard — 42.94°N, 91.71°WBrainard Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNeda — 42.00°N, 90.50°W

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

Anartiocystis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Anartiocystis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

100 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Anartiocystis, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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 Anartiocystis

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Ausich and Schumacher 1984