Ateleocystites lansae
No picture of Ateleocystites lansae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Ateleocystites lansae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AteleocystitesPBDB
- 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 most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 449.2 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Ateleocystites lansae 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ateleocystites lansae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ateleocystites lansae and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Ateleocystites lansae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Allolichas2 sites
- Caryocrinites rugatus2 sites
- Acanthocrania elusa1 site
- Anaphragma1 site
- Atractopyge1 site
- Boreadorthis sheehani1 site
- Calymenidae1 site
- Calyptaulax1 site
- Cryptothyris magnifica1 site
- Dolerorthis intercostata1 site
- Eopholidostrophia (Megapholidostrophia) mediocostalis1 site
- Eostropheodonta portfieldensis1 site
- Glyptorthis splendens1 site
- Harpetidae1 site
- Illaenidae1 site
- Katastrophomena agrestis1 site
- Meadowtownella1 site
- Neoplatystrophia deani1 site
- Onniella jonesi1 site
- Orbiculoidea concentrica1 site
- Parillaenus fallax1 site
- Platylichas1 site
- Remopleurides colbii1 site
- Skenidioides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ateleocystites lansae, 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
1 referenceEach of the 4 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ateleocystites lansae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Ateleocystites lansae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ateleocystites lansae 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 itAteleocystites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McDermott and Paul 2017