Anartiocystis foerstei

Anartiocystis foerstei

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnartiocystisPBDB
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 most 1.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 440.5 Mya and 438.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Anartiocystis foerstei on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

1 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

1 formation

Brassfield — 39.81°N, 83.98°W

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

Anartiocystis foerstei and its relatives

Silurian

Where Anartiocystis foerstei and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Anartiocystis foerstei, 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 1 occurrence 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 Anartiocystis foerstei

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Anartiocystis foerstei 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 itAnartiocystis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ausich and Schumacher 1984