Callisphenus

No picture of Callisphenus 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 Callisphenus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DasycladaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Dasycladales
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Dasycladales
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Dasycladales
Environment
coastal,inner shelf,oligotrophic,hypersaline,marine,brackishPBDB, for Dasycladales

Time the record covers

At most 68 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 486.85 Mya and 419.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOrdovician — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 2 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences484–481 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–418 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences488 Mya418 Mya

2 occurrences of Callisphenus 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

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.

Found in

1 formation

Takche — 32.27°N, 77.41°E

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

Callisphenus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Callisphenus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Callisphenus, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Callisphenus 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 Callisphenus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Callisphenus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itDasycladaceae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Høeg 1938