Holocystites scutellatus

Holocystites scutellatus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 6.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 439.4 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.1 Mya to 430.6 Mya.

Silurian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesSilurian440–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439.4 Mya432.9 Mya440.6 Mya430.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Holocystites scutellatus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

3 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

3 formations

Osgood — 39.13°N, 85.30°WOsgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WJoliet — 41.53°N, 88.08°W

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

Holocystites scutellatus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Holocystites scutellatus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

112 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Holocystites scutellatus, 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

Each of the 3 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 content2

Picture of Holocystites scutellatus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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 itHolocystites through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1864