Apiocystitidae indet.
No picture of Apiocystitidae indet. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Apiocystitidae indet. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 6.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 445.5 Mya and 438.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Apiocystitidae indet. 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
3 occurrences- Ordovician16%
- Silurian84%
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
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The named rock units Apiocystitidae indet. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Apiocystitidae indet. and its relatives
SilurianWhere Apiocystitidae indet. and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Bryozoa2 sites
- Calceocrinidae2 sites
- Encrinuridae2 sites
- Favosites2 sites
- Halysites2 sites
- Hesperorthis2 sites
- Inadunata2 sites
- Leptaena2 sites
- Orthida2 sites
- Platyceras2 sites
- Plectatrypa2 sites
- Pyrgocystis2 sites
- Rugosa2 sites
- Sievertsia2 sites
- Syringopora2 sites
- Arachnophyllum1 site
- Astraeospongium1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Bothriocidaroida1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Brockocystis nodosaria1 site
- Calceocrinus1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Dalejina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Apiocystitidae indet., 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 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Apiocystitidae indet. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Apiocystitidae indet. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Apiocystitidae indet. was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.