Mitrocystites

Searched as Mitrocystites mitra. The Paleobiology Database treats Mitrocystites as the accepted name.

No picture of Mitrocystites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mitrocystites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 463.3 Mya to 461 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 457.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 3 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–469 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences461–461 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–460 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–459 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463.3 Mya461 Mya469.9 Mya456.7 Mya

3 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

3 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

3 formations

Sarka — 50.00°N, 14.00°EDobrotiva — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELetna — 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

1 reference

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Mitrocystites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Mitrocystites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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.