Eumorphocystis

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EumorphocystidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastozoa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Blastozoa
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Blastozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 450.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 471.3 Mya to 449.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 12 of 12 occurrencesOrdovician472–471 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences471–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–470 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 2 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 3 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences458.2 Mya450.2 Mya471.8 Mya449 Mya

12 occurrences of Eumorphocystis 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

12 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

Bromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WBromide — 34.53°N, 96.67°WBromide — 34.62°N, 96.63°WWise Lake — 43.28°N, 91.85°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WBenbolt — 35.91°N, 84.09°WBenbolt — 36.73°N, 82.70°WStewartville — 44.00°N, 92.00°W

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

Eumorphocystis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Eumorphocystis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

114 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Eumorphocystis, 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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 Eumorphocystis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.