Calostylis

No picture of Calostylis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Calostylis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CalostylidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 26 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 21 of 26 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 26 occurrencesDevonian470–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–464 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences464–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–458 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences446–443 Mya — about 3 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 6 occurrences440–437 Mya — about 4 occurrences437–434 Mya — about 4 occurrences434–431 Mya — about 4 occurrences431–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence425–422 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–384 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya393.47 Mya470 Mya381 Mya

26 occurrences of Calostylis 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

26 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

11 formations

Brassfield — 37.66°N, 84.12°WBrassfield — 39.48°N, 83.86°WBrassfield — 37.80°N, 84.09°WBrassfield — 37.71°N, 83.98°WShaerbuer — 46.78°N, 85.72°EMynaral — 45.36°N, 73.73°EJeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WXiaqiaojia — 27.00°N, 103.00°EBecscie — 49.50°N, 63.00°WUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.50°N, 2.08°WChokusu — 49.13°N, 88.37°EÄrina — 59.19°N, 26.20°ERumba — 58.84°N, 24.04°E

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The named rock units Calostylis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Calostylis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Calostylis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

374 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Calostylis, 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

12 references

Each of the 26 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

Media content0

No picture of Calostylis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Calostylis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Calostylis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lindström 1868