Aristocystitidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphaeronitidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastozoa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Blastozoa
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Blastozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 85 occurrencesOrdovician — about 75 of 85 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 10 of 85 occurrencesSilurian488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–483 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–469 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 3 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 5 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 5 occurrences463–461 Mya — about 10 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 22 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 9 occurrences457–454 Mya — about 4 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 4 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 4 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 2 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–440 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences440–438 Mya — about 3 occurrences438–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–432 Mya — about 2 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477.1 Mya432.9 Mya488 Mya426 Mya

85 occurrences of Aristocystitidae 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

85 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

37 formations

Zahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZahorany — 50.10°N, 14.44°EZahorany — 50.11°N, 14.50°EZahorany — 49.99°N, 14.15°ENavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WNavas de Estena — 39.47°N, 4.48°WLiben — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELiben — 49.72°N, 13.57°ELiben — 49.80°N, 13.63°ELiben — 49.82°N, 13.70°ELower Ktaoua — 30.00°N, 8.50°WLower Ktaoua — 31.23°N, 4.53°WVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EVinice — 50.00°N, 14.15°EOsgood — 39.07°N, 85.25°WOsgood — 38.81°N, 85.65°WShizipu — 28.00°N, 107.00°EShizipu — 27.00°N, 105.00°EUpper Ktaoua — 31.08°N, 5.25°WUpper Ktaoua — 30.77°N, 5.66°WUpper Ktaoua — 30.00°N, 5.50°WDobrotiva — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELengshuigou — 23.00°N, 104.00°ELenshuigou — 23.00°N, 104.00°ESanqiaojia — 27.00°N, 103.00°EPizarras Guindo — 38.70°N, 3.77°WSueve Shale — 43.47°N, 5.06°WSueve Shale — 43.00°N, 5.00°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WLashkarak — 36.30°N, 51.02°ELashkarak — 36.21°N, 54.22°EBou Zeroual — 30.14°N, 6.36°WJoliet Dolomite — 41.64°N, 88.06°WCastillejo — 41.15°N, 1.21°WShihtien — 24.77°N, 99.15°EBohdalec — 50.00°N, 14.00°EXiaqiaojia — 27.00°N, 103.00°ESchistes Botella — 38.00°N, 4.00°WSchistes du Courijou — 48.00°N, 4.00°W

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The named rock units Aristocystitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aristocystitidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Aristocystitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

828 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Aristocystitidae, 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

34 references

Each of the 85 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. 22 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Aristocystitidae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aristocystitidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Aristocystitidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassler 1938