Mitrocystites

Mitrocystites

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MitrocystitidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Mitrata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Mitrata
Motility
passively mobilePBDB, for Mitrata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stylophora
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 57 million years on record.

The record covers at least 468 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 399.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 4 of 5 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 5 occurrencesDevonian479–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–473 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences473–471 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences471–468 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences468–465 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences460–457 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences409–406 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences406–403 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468 Mya410.62 Mya479 Mya398 Mya

5 occurrences of Mitrocystites 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

5 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

5 formations

Pontyfenni — 52.00°N, 5.00°WLetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°ENavas de Estena — 39.00°N, 4.00°WHunsrück Slate — 49.83°N, 7.37°ESarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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

Mitrocystites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Mitrocystites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

403 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Mitrocystites, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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 content1

Picture of Mitrocystites

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mitrocystites 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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What may have been alongside itMitrocystitida through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.