Anomalocystitidae

Anomalocystitidae

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnomalocystitidaPBDB
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 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 459.3 Mya to 399.5 Mya.

Ordovician — about 8 of 19 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 19 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 8 of 19 occurrencesDevonian460–458 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458–456 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 1 occurrence454–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–450 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences450–448 Mya — about 1 occurrence448–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences444–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–431 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences431–429 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences427–425 Mya — about 1 occurrence425–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–419 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences419–417 Mya — about 2 occurrences417–415 Mya — about 2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 2 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences405–402 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences402–400 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453.8 Mya410.62 Mya460 Mya398 Mya

19 occurrences of Anomalocystitidae on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

19 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

14 formations

Hunsrück Slate — 49.89°N, 7.47°EHunsrück Slate — 49.83°N, 7.37°EHumevale — 37.47°S, 145.23°ELexington Limestone — 37.64°N, 84.66°WLexington Limestone — 37.77°N, 84.61°WVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EYan Yean — 36.93°S, 144.75°EBrainard — 42.94°N, 91.71°WScales — 37.23°N, 89.47°WManlius — 42.13°N, 73.93°WCoeymans — 42.97°N, 75.15°WBois d’Arc — 34.48°N, 96.43°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.52°N, 2.10°WRust — 43.28°N, 75.14°WClays Ferry — 38.38°N, 84.30°WUpper Ktaoua — 30.77°N, 5.66°W

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The named rock units Anomalocystitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anomalocystitidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Anomalocystitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

534 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Anomalocystitidae, 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

11 references

Each of the 19 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 content1

Picture of Anomalocystitidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Anomalocystitidae 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 itAnomalocystitida through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bassler 1938