Phyllocystis

No picture of Phyllocystis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Phyllocystis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhyllocystidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cornuta
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Cornuta
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cornuta
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stylophora
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 488.9 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 495.2 Mya to 471.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOrdovician496–495 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences495–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–492 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences492–492 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences492–491 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences491–490 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences490–489 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences487–487 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–477 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences477–476 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences476–475 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences474–473 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences473–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–472 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences472–471 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences488.9 Mya477.1 Mya495.7 Mya470.8 Mya

3 occurrences of Phyllocystis on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

Whipple Cave — 39.23°N, 114.88°WSaint-Chinian — 43.44°N, 2.89°ESandu — 23.35°N, 106.12°E

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

Phyllocystis and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Phyllocystis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Phyllocystis, 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

3 references

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

Media content0

No picture of Phyllocystis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Phyllocystis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Phyllocystis 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 itPhyllocystidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.