Aulocystella

No picture of Aulocystella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aulocystella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AulocystidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Auloporida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Auloporida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Auloporida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 67 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 346.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous435–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences348–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426.7 Mya358.86 Mya435 Mya345 Mya

2 occurrences of Aulocystella 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

2 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.

Aulocystella and its relatives

Silurian

Where Aulocystella and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aulocystella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 2 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 Aulocystella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan of Aulocystella was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itAulocystidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kuzina 1955