Anomalocystites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnomalocystitinaePBDB
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 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 459.3 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesDevonian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesDevonian460–459 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences457–455 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443.1 Mya419.62 Mya460.2 Mya412.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Anomalocystites 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

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

Vinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EManlius — 42.13°N, 73.93°WCoeymans — 42.97°N, 75.15°W

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

Found in the same rock

95 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Anomalocystites, 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 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 Anomalocystites 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 Anomalocystites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Anomalocystites 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 itAnomalocystitinae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1858