Choristites

Searched as Choristites cf. supramosquensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Choristites as the accepted name.

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 most 14 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 290.1 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 1 occurrencePermian304–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences292–292 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304.2 Mya289.6 Mya

1 occurrence of Choristites on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

Wordiekammen limestones — 78.49°N, 16.79°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.

Choristites and its relatives

Permian

Where Choristites and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

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

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

Media content2

Picture of Choristites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
AVZ
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itChoristitinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fischer de Waldheim 1825)