Macrocystella

Macrocystella

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MacrocystellidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhombifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 491 Mya to 449.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 494.2 Mya to 448.8 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 32 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 31 of 32 occurrencesOrdovician495–494 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences494–492 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences492–490 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences487–486 Mya — about 2 occurrences486–484 Mya — about 3 occurrences484–483 Mya — about 3 occurrences483–481 Mya — about 3 occurrences481–479 Mya — about 3 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 3 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 3 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 2 occurrences475–473 Mya — about 2 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences470–468 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences467–465 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences464–462 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence491 Mya449.2 Mya495.1 Mya447.9 Mya

32 occurrences of Macrocystella 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

32 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

18 formations

Upper Fezouata — 30.42°N, 5.85°WUpper Fezouata — 30.50°N, 5.75°WUpper Fezouata — 31.38°N, 4.17°WUpper Fezouata — 30.14°N, 7.02°WUpper Fezouata — 29.80°N, 7.52°WSanta Rosita — 22.25°S, 64.96°WSanta Rosita — 25.00°S, 65.00°WSanta Rosita — 23.00°S, 65.00°WFezouata — 30.50°N, 5.85°WFezouata — 30.99°N, 5.35°WFezouata — 30.50°N, 6.11°WLetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°EVal d'Homs — 43.00°N, 3.00°ELower Fezouata — 30.68°N, 6.18°WLower Fezouata — 30.51°N, 6.07°WSanted — 41.00°N, 1.00°WSanted — 41.27°N, 1.80°WShineton Shale — 52.63°N, 2.58°WShineton Shales — 52.63°N, 2.58°WGuanacuna — 17.62°S, 62.22°WSaint-Chinian — 43.44°N, 2.89°EHølonda — 63.13°N, 9.98°EMilina — 49.80°N, 13.80°ERupasca — 22.98°S, 65.35°WPizarras Cantera — 38.52°N, 3.57°WFezouata Shale — 30.68°N, 6.50°WCape Calhoun — 80.08°N, 67.00°WChatsworth — 22.01°S, 140.30°E

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The named rock units Macrocystella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Macrocystella and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Macrocystella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

374 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 31 sites for Macrocystella, 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

20 references

Each of the 32 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. 8 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 content1

Picture of Macrocystella

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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Macrocystella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Callaway 1877