Eumorphocystis multiporata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EumorphocystisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 8.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 449.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Eumorphocystis multiporata 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
6 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
- Bromide Formation · Simpson Group5
- Benbolt Formation1
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The named rock units Eumorphocystis multiporata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eumorphocystis multiporata and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Eumorphocystis multiporata and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Amygdalocystites florealis1 site
- Apodasmocrinus1 site
- Archaeocrinus1 site
- Archaeocrinus lacunosus1 site
- Bromidocystis bassleri1 site
- Carabocrinus1 site
- Carabocrinus treadwelli1 site
- Cheirocrinus logani1 site
- Cheirocystis ardmorensis1 site
- Cleiocrinus regius1 site
- Columbocystis typica1 site
- Cyathocystis1 site
- Dendrocrinus1 site
- Dinorthis transversa1 site
- Echinosphaerites aurantium1 site
- Ectenocrinus1 site
- Glyptocystella1 site
- Glyptocystis forbesi1 site
- Glyptocystites1 site
- Glyptocystites loeblichae1 site
- Glyptocystites multipora1 site
- Glyptocystites regnelli1 site
- Glyptorthis uniformis1 site
- Hesperocystis deckeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Eumorphocystis multiporata, 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
3 references- New genera of American Middle Ordovician "Cystoidea"3
- Previous studies of Bromide echinoderms2
- A new cystoid from the Ordovician of Oklahoma1
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
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No picture of Eumorphocystis multiporata 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 Eumorphocystis multiporata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eumorphocystis multiporata 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.
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What may have been alongside itEumorphocystis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Branson and Peck 1940