Aulocystis

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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 336 million years on record.

The record covers at least 419.62 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 146 occurrencesDevonian — about 143 of 146 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 146 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 146 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 146 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 146 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 146 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 146 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 146 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 146 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 146 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 146 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 146 occurrences434–422 Mya — about 1 occurrence422–409 Mya — about 3 occurrences409–397 Mya — about 3 occurrences397–385 Mya — about 85 occurrences385–372 Mya — about 52 occurrences372–360 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences360–348 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences419.62 Mya83.6 Mya434 Mya65 Mya

146 occurrences of Aulocystis on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

146 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

24 formations

Ludlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 77.76°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.88°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.81°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.84°N, 77.90°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.70°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 76.50°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.35°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.22°WLudlowville — 43.00°N, 79.00°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WSilica — 41.12°N, 84.85°WOnondaga — 43.01°N, 78.01°WSkaneateles — 42.97°N, 76.44°WSkaneateles — 42.95°N, 76.43°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.34°WSkaneateles — 42.94°N, 76.25°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 76.21°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.25°N, 85.77°WKowala — 50.82°N, 20.58°EKowala — 50.80°N, 20.47°EBeechwood Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WKess-Kess — 31.38°N, 4.06°WBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°EAmerboh — 31.38°N, 4.05°WFiddlers Green — 42.85°N, 78.80°WSilver Creek — 38.29°N, 85.79°WDawson Bay — 52.89°N, 101.06°WMoscow — 42.88°N, 78.42°WCombe Martin Slates — 51.20°N, 4.03°WBeaulieu — 50.83°N, 1.77°EFerques — 50.83°N, 1.77°ENewberria — 51.12°N, 7.88°EHitoegane — 36.23°N, 137.53°EMarcellus Shale — 41.00°N, 75.00°WQuy Dat — 17.90°N, 105.82°EMcCann Hill — 65.39°N, 141.00°WTaboumakhlouf — 30.82°N, 4.53°WWhite Limestone — 55.22°N, 6.40°W

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The named rock units Aulocystis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aulocystis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Aulocystis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

770 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 115 sites for Aulocystis, 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

29 references

Each of the 146 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. 17 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 Aulocystis 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 Aulocystis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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. Schlüter 1885