Choristites

Choristites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ChoristitinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferida
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 107 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 239.48 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 237 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 86 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 52 of 86 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 33 of 86 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 86 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 86 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 86 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 1 occurrence357–353 Mya — about 3 occurrences353–349 Mya — about 3 occurrences349–344 Mya — about 1 occurrence344–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–319 Mya — about 4 occurrences319–315 Mya — about 5 occurrences315–311 Mya — about 14 occurrences311–306 Mya — about 16 occurrences306–302 Mya — about 3 occurrences302–298 Mya — about 4 occurrences298–294 Mya — about 7 occurrences294–289 Mya — about 9 occurrences289–285 Mya — about 5 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 3 occurrences281–277 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences277–273 Mya — about 1 occurrence273–268 Mya — about 1 occurrence268–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences264–260 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences260–256 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences256–251 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–235 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences346.7 Mya239.48 Mya361 Mya235 Mya

86 occurrences of Choristites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

86 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

30 formations

Ely Limestone — 39.31°N, 113.64°WTin Mountain — 36.75°N, 117.48°WTin Mountain — 36.74°N, 117.45°WKarawuyi — 38.27°N, 75.95°EKarawuyi — 38.05°N, 75.95°ELongyin — 24.70°N, 105.22°ELonglin — 24.70°N, 105.22°EBijintawu — 40.33°N, 78.00°EXiaohaizi — 39.50°N, 78.75°EGeumcheon-Jangseong — 37.16°N, 128.88°EGeumcheon-Jangseong — 37.10°N, 129.05°EMaping — 24.70°N, 105.22°EMaping — 25.57°N, 106.13°ELiangshan — 24.70°N, 105.22°EAbu Durba — 28.65°N, 33.28°EAbu Durba — 28.55°N, 33.30°EAring — 4.93°N, 102.42°EUyamanoro — 34.86°N, 133.27°ETahkandit — 64.97°N, 140.90°WBird Spring — 36.55°N, 115.69°WAzigan — 38.27°N, 75.95°EAkatievo — 55.38°N, 37.53°EMarsyandi — 28.70°N, 83.85°ETakhandit — 65.18°N, 141.70°WKigiltas — 64.00°N, 133.00°ENam Maholan — 15.45°N, 101.86°EDegerböls — 81.06°N, 85.68°WAmb — 32.50°N, 71.93°EDolzanova Soteska — 46.38°N, 14.33°E

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The named rock units Choristites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Choristites and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Choristites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

638 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 69 sites for Choristites, 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

31 references

Each of the 86 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. 19 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 content2

Picture of Choristites

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Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
AVZ
Licence
CC Attribution
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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. (Fischer de Waldheim 1825)