Cystostroma

Searched as Cystostroma sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Cystostroma as the accepted name.

No picture of Cystostroma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cystostroma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RosenellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stromatoporoidea

Time the record covers

At least 106 million years on record.

The record covers at least 471.3 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 37 occurrencesOrdovician — about 35 of 37 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 37 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 37 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 37 occurrences489–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–480 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences480–476 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences476–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–467 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences467–462 Mya — about 2 occurrences462–458 Mya — about 2 occurrences458–454 Mya — about 5 occurrences454–449 Mya — about 12 occurrences449–445 Mya — about 12 occurrences445–440 Mya — about 2 occurrences440–436 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences370–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences365–361 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences361–356 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471.3 Mya365.2 Mya489 Mya356 Mya

37 occurrences of Cystostroma 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

37 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

21 formations

Red River — 52.00°N, 97.00°WRed River — 52.32°N, 97.31°WRed River — 50.08°N, 96.70°WTsagaan Del — 46.41°N, 100.26°EDzerom — 67.37°N, 104.10°EBelubula — 34.00°S, 149.00°EBelubula — 33.63°S, 148.78°ERegans Creek Limestone — 33.50°S, 148.88°EDuwibong — 37.15°N, 128.94°EDuwibong — 37.15°N, 128.90°EXiazhen — 28.57°N, 118.32°EXiazhen — 28.71°N, 118.38°EFossil Hill Limestone — 34.00°S, 149.00°EDaylesford Limestone — 33.00°S, 149.00°EDen — 41.57°S, 146.42°EPortage Chute — 52.85°N, 102.38°WChasm Creek — 52.85°N, 102.38°WAkpatok — 60.34°N, 67.97°WSimard — 48.47°N, 71.05°WSanjushan — 28.70°N, 118.35°EEtoucun — 25.83°N, 109.03°EYaptikshor — 65.50°N, 60.50°EAberdeen Lake — 64.90°N, 98.73°WLower Setul Limestone — 6.43°N, 99.88°EHunghuayuan — 27.46°N, 109.04°ELower — 35.82°N, 90.50°E

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The named rock units Cystostroma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cystostroma and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cystostroma and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

218 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Cystostroma, 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

21 references

Each of the 37 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. 9 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 content0

No picture of Cystostroma was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cystostroma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cystostroma was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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 itRosenellidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Galloway and St Jean 1957