Cystiphyllum (Gyalophyllum)

Gyalophyllum Wedekind, 1927, a relative of Cystiphyllum (Gyalophyllum) — not Cystiphyllum (Gyalophyllum) itself

Not Cystiphyllum (Gyalophyllum). This is Gyalophyllum Wedekind, 1927, a relative — both are Cystiphyllidae.

Kaljo, Dimitri · CC BY-NC 4.0 · 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
CystiphyllumPBDB
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 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Silurian — about 5 of 6 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 6 occurrencesDevonian439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432.9 Mya422.7 Mya439.1 Mya412.5 Mya

6 occurrences of Cystiphyllum (Gyalophyllum) 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

6 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

4 formations

Pailungchiang — 34.00°N, 103.00°EKunzhak — 39.25°N, 69.00°ENingqiang — 32.68°N, 105.93°EGoloskov Subsuite — 48.53°N, 26.67°E

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

Cystiphyllum (Gyalophyllum) and its relatives

Silurian

Where Cystiphyllum (Gyalophyllum) and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

63 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cystiphyllum (Gyalophyllum), 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 6 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 Gyalophyllum Wedekind, 1927

Source
GBIF
Credit
Kaljo, Dimitri
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow 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 itCystiphyllum through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wedekind 1927)