Trematocystis magniporatus
No picture of Trematocystis magniporatus 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 Trematocystis magniporatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrematocystisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 2.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 432.9 Mya and 430.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Trematocystis magniporatus 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
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Trematocystis magniporatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Trematocystis magniporatus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Trematocystis magniporatus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Holocystites (Holocystites) alternatus2 sites
- Allocystites1 site
- Ampheristocystis concentricus1 site
- Anastrophia1 site
- Arctinurus1 site
- Asteroidea1 site
- Astraeospongium1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Atrypina disparilis1 site
- Bellerophontoidea1 site
- Botryocrinus1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Calceocrinidae1 site
- Callocystites1 site
- Calymene nasuta1 site
- Calymenidae1 site
- Caryocrinites1 site
- Clorinda1 site
- Coronata1 site
- Corynotrypa dissimilis1 site
- Craniops1 site
- Cupulocorona1 site
- Cupulocorona gemmiformis1 site
- Cyathocrinites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Trematocystis magniporatus, 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- The North American Holocystites Fauna (Echinodermata: Blastozoa: Diploporita): Paleobiology and Systematics2
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America1
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
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No picture of Trematocystis magniporatus 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 Trematocystis magniporatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trematocystis magniporatus 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 itTrematocystis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frest et al. 2011