Scotiaecystis
No picture of Scotiaecystis 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 Scotiaecystis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ScotiaecystinaePBDB
- 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 9.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 477.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 490.2 Mya to 471.3 Mya.
2 occurrences of Scotiaecystis on record. 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
2 occurrences- Cambrian50%
- Ordovician50%
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 Scotiaecystis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Minervaecystis2 sites
- Aetocrinus1 site
- Ampyx priscus1 site
- Amygdalotheca1 site
- Anatifopsis1 site
- Aocaspis1 site
- Apatokephalus1 site
- Asaphellina1 site
- Asaphellus1 site
- Asaphopsoides1 site
- Babinka prima1 site
- Balantiocystis1 site
- Bohemopyge1 site
- Calamograptus1 site
- Chauvelicystis1 site
- Chinianaster levyi1 site
- Chinianocarpos1 site
- Clonograptus1 site
- Conotreta1 site
- Cothurnocystis1 site
- Courtessolium prepater1 site
- Coxiconchia1 site
- Cyclopyge1 site
- Deanokephalus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Scotiaecystis, 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
2 references- Systematics and paleoecology of Late Cambrian echinoderms from the western United States1
- Contribution à l'étude de l'Ordovicien inférieur de la Montagne Noire : biostratigraphie et révision des Agnostida1
Each of the 2 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 Scotiaecystis 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 Scotiaecystis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Scotiaecystis 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 itScotiaecystinae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.