Cheirocystis liexiensis

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CheirocystisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhombifera
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Rhombifera
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhombifera
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhombifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 5.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 477.1 Mya and 471.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 1 of 1 occurrenceOrdovician477–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–475 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–474 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–473 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences477.6 Mya470.8 Mya

1 occurrence of Cheirocystis liexiensis 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

Madaoyu — 28.78°N, 109.84°E

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

Cheirocystis liexiensis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cheirocystis liexiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cheirocystis liexiensis, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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

No 3D scan of Cheirocystis liexiensis 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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What may have been alongside itCheirocystis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Liu et al. 2024