Coenocystis

Coenocystis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 353.7 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 5 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrences356–352 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences352–349 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences349–345 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences299–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences282–278 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences278–275 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences275–271 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–264 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–250 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346.7 Mya274.4 Mya356 Mya250 Mya

5 occurrences of Coenocystis 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

5 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

2 formations

Fern Glen — 38.33°N, 90.37°WDelaware Mountain — 31.39°N, 104.55°W

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The named rock units Coenocystis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coenocystis and its relatives

Permian

Where Coenocystis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

97 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Coenocystis, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 content1

Picture of Coenocystis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Coenocystis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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.

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What may have been alongside itStreblocrininae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Girty 1909