Tetracystis

Tetracystis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CallocystitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhombifera
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Rhombifera
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhombifera
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhombifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 2 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426.7 Mya422.7 Mya431.1 Mya419.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Tetracystis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

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

Keyser Limestone — 39.45°N, 78.97°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.52°N, 2.10°W

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

Tetracystis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Tetracystis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tetracystis, 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

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

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Tetracystis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Tetracystis 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 itCallocystitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schuchert 1904