Macrocystella pauli
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MacrocystellaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Macrocystella
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Macrocystella
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Macrocystella
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhombifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 459.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.4 Mya to 450.1 Mya.
3 occurrences of Macrocystella pauli 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
3 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 Macrocystella pauli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Macrocystella pauli and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Macrocystella pauli and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Euloma2 sites
- Prionocheilus2 sites
- Acanthodiacrodium1 site
- Asaphellus1 site
- Bathycheilus1 site
- Bohemiaecystis1 site
- Ceratopyge1 site
- Colpocoryphe grandis1 site
- Cymatiogalea1 site
- Dendrocystites barrandei1 site
- Eupoikilofusa1 site
- Geragnostus1 site
- Goniosphaeridium1 site
- Homocystites1 site
- Micrhystridium1 site
- Orthotheca1 site
- Ortsaecrinus cocae1 site
- Parapilekia1 site
- Paurorthina1 site
- Shumardia1 site
- Stelliferidium sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Macrocystella pauli, 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- Pelmatozoan echinoderms from the Cambrian–Ordovician transition of the Iberian Chains (NE Spain): early diversification of anchoring strategies2
- Nuevo Macrocystellidae (Echinodermata, Cystoidea Rhombifera) para el Ordovicico Español1
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. 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
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No picture of Macrocystella pauli 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 Macrocystella pauli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Macrocystella pauli 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 itMacrocystella through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gil Cid et al. 1996