Holocystis

Holocystis is a genus of prehistoric stony corals.

No picture of Holocystis 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 Holocystis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyathophoridaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Cyathophoridae
Life habit
colonialPBDB, for Cyathophoridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 1.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 119.57 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 23 of 23 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous126–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–125 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences125–125 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences123–123 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences123–122 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences122–122 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–119 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences118–118 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences117–117 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences116–116 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences115–115 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences113–113 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121.4 Mya – 119.57 Mya126.3 Mya109.6 Mya

23 occurrences of Holocystis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

23 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

6 formations

Atherfield Clay — 50.60°N, 1.32°WAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.58°WAtherfield Clay — 50.61°N, 1.36°WGrodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°EMural Limestone — 30.17°N, 110.60°WGrodziszcze Conglomerates — 49.83°N, 19.93°E"Grodziszcze" — 49.85°N, 18.90°EEvangelistria — 38.38°N, 23.14°E

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The named rock units Holocystis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Holocystis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Holocystis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

418 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Holocystis, 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

16 references

Each of the 23 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. 4 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 Holocystis 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 Holocystis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Holocystis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCyathophoridae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lonsdale 1850