Fungocystites rarissimus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FungocystitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 459.3 Mya and 457.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Fungocystites rarissimus 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Fungocystites rarissimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Fungocystites rarissimus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Fungocystites rarissimus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
35 taxa- Prokopius sculptus2 sites
- Actinopeltis completa1 site
- Antispira ferrigena1 site
- Aristocystites bohemicus1 site
- Aristocystites subcylindricus1 site
- Bicuspina multicostellata1 site
- Cekovia1 site
- Codiacystis potens1 site
- Cyclopyge1 site
- Dalmanitina1 site
- Deanaspis1 site
- Deutocystites modestus1 site
- Dionide formosa1 site
- Eccoptochile1 site
- Echinosphaerites1 site
- Ellipsotaphrus1 site
- Eudolatites angelini1 site
- Ferrogyra antiqua1 site
- Fungocystites solitarius1 site
- Gelidorthis1 site
- Heterocyclopyge pachycephala1 site
- Hirnantia transgrediens1 site
- Jezercia1 site
- Marrolithus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Fungocystites rarissimus, 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
2 references- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia1
- 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
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No picture of Fungocystites rarissimus 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 Fungocystites rarissimus, 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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What may have been alongside itFungocystites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1887)