Cyathocystis

Cyathocystis

Sprinkle, Jim · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyathocystidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
Motility
stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Edrioasteroidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 4.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 453.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.6 Mya.

Ordovician — about 8 of 8 occurrencesOrdovician472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 1 occurrence453–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458.2 Mya453.9 Mya471.8 Mya449.1 Mya

8 occurrences of Cyathocystis 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

8 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

3 formations

Bromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WBromide — 34.10°N, 97.18°WDunleith — 37.07°N, 89.57°WVasalemma — 59.24°N, 24.29°E

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

Cyathocystis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cyathocystis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cyathocystis, 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

5 references

Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cyathocystis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Sprinkle, Jim
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCyathocystidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schmidt 1879