Isthmocystis distincta
No picture of Isthmocystis distincta was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Isthmocystis distincta firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 132.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Isthmocystis distincta 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
3 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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.
Isthmocystis distincta and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Isthmocystis distincta and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Ammodiscus3 sites
- Cleistosphaeridium3 sites
- Crithionina3 sites
- Cyclonephelium3 sites
- Dingodinium3 sites
- Glomospira3 sites
- Haplophragmoides3 sites
- Hystrichodinium pulchrum3 sites
- Lenticulina3 sites
- Orietalia3 sites
- Recurvoides3 sites
- Sirmiodinium grossii3 sites
- Tanyosphaeridium3 sites
- Tubotuberella apatela3 sites
- Valensiella3 sites
- Chlamydophorella2 sites
- Cicatricosisporites2 sites
- Circulodinium2 sites
- Cribroperidinium2 sites
- Cribrostomoides2 sites
- Cristellaria (Marginulina)2 sites
- Dichotomites2 sites
- Gaudryina2 sites
- Gonyaulacysta2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Isthmocystis distincta, 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
1 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Isthmocystis distincta was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Isthmocystis distincta firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Isthmocystis distincta 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 itFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.