Aristocystites bohemicus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AristocystitesPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Blastozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 5.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 463.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
9 occurrences of Aristocystites bohemicus 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
9 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
4 formations
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The named rock units Aristocystites bohemicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aristocystites bohemicus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Aristocystites bohemicus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
200 taxa- Marrolithus4 sites
- Sinuitopsis neglecta4 sites
- Actinopeltis completa3 sites
- Aegiromena aquila3 sites
- Anatifopsis bohemica3 sites
- Archaeoconularia insignis3 sites
- Gelidorthis3 sites
- Geragnostella3 sites
- Hastatellina hastata3 sites
- Heterocyclopyge pachycephala3 sites
- Kloucekia phillipsi3 sites
- Prionocheilus pulchra3 sites
- Rhombifera bohemica3 sites
- Ribeiria apusoides3 sites
- Actinopeltis globosa2 sites
- Anaconularia anomala2 sites
- Bicuspina cf. cava2 sites
- Bohemilla2 sites
- Bucanopsis comata2 sites
- Calymenella2 sites
- Calymenella parvula2 sites
- Cekovia2 sites
- Cekovia transfuga2 sites
- Cilinella svobodai2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Aristocystites bohemicus, 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
3 references- The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia5
- Aristocystites, a Recumbent Diploporid (Echinodermata) from the Middle and Late Ordovician of Bohemia, ČSSR3
- Ordovician Tergomya and Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco)1
Each of the 9 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 Aristocystites bohemicus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAristocystites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1887