Balanocystis sp.

No picture of Balanocystis sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Balanocystis 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. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At most 1.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 461 Mya and 459.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 1 of 1 occurrenceOrdovician461–461 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences461.5 Mya459.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Balanocystis 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

1 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

1 formation

Villar del Salz — 40.93°N, 2.05°W

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

Balanocystis sp. and its relatives

Ordovician

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

Found in the same rock

32 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Balanocystis 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Balanocystis sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

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

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

No 3D scan of Balanocystis sp. 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.