Asperellacystis plicatus
No picture of Asperellacystis plicatus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Asperellacystis plicatus 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. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 449.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Asperellacystis plicatus 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- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Asperellacystis plicatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Asperellacystis plicatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Asperellacystis plicatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Asperellacystis asperellus4 sites
- Howellites wesenbergensis4 sites
- Porambonites4 sites
- Pseudopholidops4 sites
- Leptaena3 sites
- Oanduporella reticulata3 sites
- Saukrodictya3 sites
- Schizocrinus3 sites
- Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) tenera3 sites
- Achradocystites schmidti2 sites
- Fossulacrinus fossulus2 sites
- Ilmarinia2 sites
- Kjaerina poljensis2 sites
- Onniella2 sites
- Philhedra2 sites
- Platystrophia2 sites
- Platystrophia dentata2 sites
- Rafinesquina2 sites
- Rhynchotrema parva2 sites
- Rugulosocrinus rugulosus2 sites
- Toxochasmops2 sites
- Vellamo2 sites
- Virucrinus kegelensis2 sites
- Anazyga1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Asperellacystis plicatus, 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
2 references- Lithology and Fauna of the Caradoc series type sections in North Estonia3
- Oandu stage (Caradoc) in central North Estonia2
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
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No picture of Asperellacystis plicatus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Asperellacystis plicatus 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.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Asperellacystis plicatus 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 itFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.