Cystiphyllidae

Cystiphyllidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CystiphyllidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 439.4 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 550 occurrencesSilurian — about 180 of 550 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 370 of 550 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 550 occurrences445–442 Mya — about 3 occurrences442–439 Mya — about 18 occurrences439–436 Mya — about 18 occurrences436–433 Mya — about 18 occurrences433–430 Mya — about 39 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 26 occurrences427–424 Mya — about 24 occurrences424–421 Mya — about 21 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 19 occurrences419–416 Mya — about 16 occurrences416–413 Mya — about 17 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 22 occurrences410–407 Mya — about 10 occurrences407–404 Mya — about 10 occurrences404–401 Mya — about 10 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 11 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 12 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 29 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 52 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 72 occurrences386–383 Mya — about 71 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 30 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 2 occurrences378–375 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences375–372 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences363–360 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439.4 Mya382.31 Mya445 Mya357 Mya

550 occurrences of Cystiphyllidae on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

550 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

165 formations

Onondaga — 43.01°N, 78.01°WOnondaga — 42.95°N, 76.17°WOnondaga — 42.92°N, 78.25°WOnondaga — 42.78°N, 74.33°WOnondaga — 42.96°N, 78.74°WOnondaga — 42.65°N, 74.08°WKhandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EMcColley Canyon — 39.60°N, 116.27°WMcColley Canyon — 39.95°N, 116.28°WMcColley Canyon — 39.38°N, 116.00°WMcColley Canyon — 39.88°N, 116.07°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 41.12°N, 84.85°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WMoscow — 42.71°N, 78.94°WMoscow — 42.90°N, 78.04°WMoscow — 42.81°N, 77.90°WMoscow — 42.77°N, 77.83°WMoscow — 42.82°N, 77.57°WMoscow — 42.78°N, 77.33°WHume — 65.28°N, 128.77°WHume — 65.28°N, 128.89°WHume — 65.30°N, 126.57°WHume — 65.33°N, 129.98°WHume — 65.63°N, 128.25°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLudlowville — 42.95°N, 76.02°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.00°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.71°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 75.54°WLudlowville — 42.76°N, 76.47°WBurdekin — 19.73°S, 146.43°EBurdekin — 19.90°S, 146.23°EBurdekin — 19.50°S, 146.33°EBurdekin — 19.47°S, 146.08°EBurdekin — 19.47°S, 145.98°ESanta Lucia — 42.84°N, 2.01°ESanta Lucia — 42.89°N, 2.09°ESanta Lucia — 42.88°N, 5.10°WSanta Lucia — 42.84°N, 5.65°WYingtang — 24.10°N, 109.98°EYingtang — 24.07°N, 109.88°EShanda Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°EGarra — 33.00°S, 149.00°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°EErdaogou — 43.00°N, 127.00°EHanonet — 50.05°N, 4.48°EKhkoma — 67.04°N, 103.77°EErtang — 23.60°N, 109.65°EErtang — 23.95°N, 109.68°EPortilla — 42.83°N, 1.57°EPortilla — 43.00°N, 6.17°WQuinton — 20.00°S, 145.00°EBou Dib — 31.19°N, 4.93°WDunedin — 56.28°N, 123.40°WDunedin — 59.73°N, 125.43°WDunedin — 57.27°N, 123.92°WHorn Plateau — 62.25°N, 119.25°WHorn Plateau — 62.17°N, 117.83°WHorn Plateau — 62.18°N, 117.53°WDonggangling — 22.39°N, 107.55°EDonggangling — 24.10°N, 109.98°EDonggangling — 25.50°N, 110.25°EPailungchiang — 34.00°N, 103.00°E

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The named rock units Cystiphyllidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 141 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 69 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cystiphyllidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cystiphyllidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

2,008 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 297 sites for Cystiphyllidae, and this reads 240 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

137 references

Each of the 550 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. 125 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 content1

Picture of Cystiphyllidae

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
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 itCystiphyllida through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850