Aristocystis sp.

No picture of Aristocystis sp. was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Aristocystis sp. 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.

Time the record covers

At least 9.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 468 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 458.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician487–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477.1 Mya468 Mya487 Mya457.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Aristocystis sp. 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

3 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

3 formations

Panjiazui — 29.00°N, 111.00°ESchistes de Beaumont — 49.50°N, 1.60°WLashkarak — 36.30°N, 51.02°E

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

Aristocystis sp. and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Aristocystis sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

40 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aristocystis sp., 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 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. 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

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No picture of Aristocystis sp. was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Aristocystis sp. 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.

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.