Deutocystites modestus
No picture of Deutocystites modestus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Deutocystites modestus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DeutocystitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 9.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 459.7 Mya and 450.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Deutocystites modestus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
2 formations
- Lower Ktaoua Formation · Ktaoua Group1
- Vinice Formation1
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The named rock units Deutocystites modestus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Deutocystites modestus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Deutocystites modestus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Aegiromena aquila1 site
- Arachnocystites infaustus1 site
- Aristocystites subcylindricus1 site
- Clathrospira amouguerana1 site
- Codiacystis potens1 site
- Fungocystites rarissimus1 site
- Fungocystites solitarius1 site
- Heliocrinites1 site
- Holopea antiquata1 site
- Illaenidae1 site
- Mucronaspis1 site
- Prokopius sculptus1 site
- Sinuitopsis neglecta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Deutocystites modestus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Ordovician Tergomya and Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco)1
- Classes des Echinodermes, sec. 1, Ordre des Cystidées1
Each of the 2 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 content0
No picture of Deutocystites modestus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Deutocystites modestus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Deutocystites modestus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDeutocystites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1887