Cystiphyllum

Cystiphyllum

the paleobear from Lontananza, Loreto, Peru · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
CystiphyllidaePBDB
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 372.15 Mya.

Ordovician — about 0 of 158 occurrencesSilurian — about 135 of 158 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 23 of 158 occurrencesDevonian445–442 Mya — about 2 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 10 occurrences440–437 Mya — about 12 occurrences437–435 Mya — about 11 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 16 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 25 occurrences430–427 Mya — about 16 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 17 occurrences425–422 Mya — about 14 occurrences422–420 Mya — about 9 occurrences420–417 Mya — about 4 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 4 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 4 occurrences413–410 Mya — about 2 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences403–400 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388–385 Mya — about 2 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–381 Mya — about 2 occurrences381–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439.4 Mya382.31 Mya445 Mya371 Mya

158 occurrences of Cystiphyllum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

158 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

71 formations

Khandyg — 62.93°N, 138.10°EQuinton — 20.00°S, 145.00°EPailungchiang — 34.00°N, 103.00°EGarra — 33.95°S, 148.82°ECedar Lake Dolomite — 53.25°N, 100.00°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 53.18°N, 99.27°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 50.70°N, 98.03°WErdaogou — 43.00°N, 127.00°EKunzhak — 39.25°N, 69.00°EGreben — 65.65°N, 59.75°EGreben — 66.25°N, 58.83°EGazelle — 41.51°N, 122.58°WVaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°WLouisville Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.84°WLudlowville — 42.80°N, 77.27°WLa Vieille — 48.13°N, 65.83°WLa Vieille — 48.20°N, 64.80°WBrassfield — 37.66°N, 84.12°WBrassfield — 37.72°N, 83.98°WUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUpper Visby — 57.82°N, 18.48°ESlite Beds — 57.72°N, 18.80°EKopanina — 49.95°N, 14.22°EKlenova — 71.00°N, 58.00°EShihniulan — 28.55°N, 106.87°EShihniulan — 28.98°N, 107.08°EBaruun-Urt — 46.67°N, 113.27°ESükhbaatar — 46.67°N, 113.27°EChokusu — 49.13°N, 88.37°ETyutyulen — 52.82°N, 56.98°ERochester — 43.19°N, 76.91°W

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The named rock units Cystiphyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 47 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cystiphyllum and its relatives

Silurian

Where Cystiphyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1,244 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 104 sites for Cystiphyllum, 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

62 references

Each of the 158 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. 50 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 Cystiphyllum

Credit
the paleobear from Lontananza, Loreto, Peru
Licence
CC BY 2.0
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 itCystiphyllidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lonsdale 1839