Implicaticystis symmetricus
No picture of Implicaticystis symmetricus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Implicaticystis symmetricus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ImplicaticystisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Paracrinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Paracrinoidea
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Paracrinoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Paracrinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Implicaticystis symmetricus 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
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Implicaticystis symmetricus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Implicaticystis symmetricus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Implicaticystis symmetricus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Implicaticystis shumardi2 sites
- Abludoglyptocrinus1 site
- Acolocrinus1 site
- Archaeocrinus1 site
- Astrocystites1 site
- Astroidea indet.1 site
- Carabocrinus1 site
- Cremacrinus1 site
- Cyathocystis1 site
- Echinosphaerites aurantium1 site
- Glyptocystella1 site
- Hybocrinus conicus1 site
- Oklahomacystis1 site
- Paleocrinus platybasalis1 site
- Paradiabolocrinus1 site
- Pleurocystites filitextus1 site
- Polytryphocycloides1 site
- Porocrinus1 site
- Praepleurocystites ? watkinsi1 site
- Wellerocystis kimmswickensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Implicaticystis symmetricus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America1
- A New Comarocystitid (Echinodermata: Paracrinoidea) from the Kimmswick Limestone (Middle Ordovician), Missouri1
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 Implicaticystis symmetricus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Implicaticystis symmetricus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Implicaticystis symmetricus 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 itImplicaticystis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frest and Strimple 1982