Aulocystidae

Aulocystidae is a family of sponges belonging to the order Lychniscosida.

Aulocystidae

Zapalski MK, Berkowski B, Wrzołek T (2016) Tabulate Corals after the Frasnian/Famennian Crisis: A Unique Fauna from t… · CC BY 4.0 · 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
AuloporoideaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Auloporida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Auloporida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Auloporida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 359 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 452.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 217 occurrencesSilurian — about 17 of 217 occurrencesDevonian — about 163 of 217 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 3 of 217 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 31 of 217 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 217 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 217 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 217 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 217 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 217 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 217 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 217 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 217 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 217 occurrences460–447 Mya — about 1 occurrence447–434 Mya — about 13 occurrences434–420 Mya — about 5 occurrences420–407 Mya — about 2 occurrences407–394 Mya — about 5 occurrences394–381 Mya — about 139 occurrences381–368 Mya — about 16 occurrences368–354 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences354–341 Mya — about 1 occurrence341–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence302–289 Mya — about 2 occurrences289–275 Mya — about 3 occurrences275–262 Mya — about 21 occurrences262–249 Mya — about 6 occurrences91–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–65 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences443.1 Mya83.6 Mya460 Mya65 Mya

217 occurrences of Aulocystidae on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

217 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

49 formations

Ludlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 77.76°WLudlowville — 42.87°N, 77.88°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 77.81°WLudlowville — 42.85°N, 78.64°WLudlowville — 42.84°N, 77.90°WLudlowville — 42.73°N, 76.70°WLudlowville — 42.83°N, 76.50°WLudlowville — 42.86°N, 76.35°WLudlowville — 42.93°N, 76.22°WLudlowville — 43.00°N, 79.00°WSilica — 41.72°N, 83.72°WSilica — 42.13°N, 83.60°WSilica — 42.33°N, 83.03°WSilica — 41.12°N, 84.85°WOnondaga — 43.01°N, 78.01°WRat Buri — 15.00°N, 98.50°ERat Buri — 13.71°N, 99.64°ERat Buri — 13.56°N, 99.61°ERat Buri — 13.69°N, 99.67°ERat Buri — 11.86°N, 99.82°ERat Buri — 11.75°N, 99.80°ERat Buri — 12.75°N, 99.72°ERat Buri — 14.90°N, 98.53°ESkaneateles — 42.97°N, 76.44°WSkaneateles — 42.95°N, 76.43°WSkaneateles — 42.98°N, 76.34°WSkaneateles — 42.94°N, 76.25°WSkaneateles — 42.92°N, 76.21°WFerques — 50.83°N, 1.77°EJeffersonville Limestone — 38.50°N, 85.75°WJeffersonville Limestone — 38.25°N, 85.77°WBeaulieu — 50.83°N, 1.77°EDewal — 33.75°N, 68.03°EDewal — 33.87°N, 67.93°EKowala — 50.82°N, 20.58°EKowala — 50.80°N, 20.47°EBeechwood Limestone — 38.26°N, 85.63°WKess-Kess — 31.38°N, 4.06°WQixia — 31.63°N, 117.83°EQixia — 24.85°N, 107.68°EQixia — 32.05°N, 119.00°ESurmaq — 30.91°N, 53.22°ESurmaq — 31.05°N, 52.88°EDawson Bay — 52.89°N, 101.06°WBaogete — 43.75°N, 122.00°EBlacourt — 50.83°N, 1.77°ERyozensan — 35.26°N, 136.36°ECawak — 33.98°N, 68.05°ECawak — 33.90°N, 67.97°ELangcuo — 29.15°N, 88.20°EAmerboh — 31.38°N, 4.05°WAkasaka Limestone — 35.39°N, 136.58°EMurphy Road — 45.01°N, 64.13°WFiddlers Green — 42.85°N, 78.80°W

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The named rock units Aulocystidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aulocystidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Aulocystidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

1,091 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 158 sites for Aulocystidae, 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

60 references

Each of the 217 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. 48 further references are not listed. 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 Aulocystidae

Credit
Zapalski MK, Berkowski B, Wrzołek T (2016) Tabulate Corals after the Frasnian/Famennian Crisis: A Unique Fauna from t…
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aulocystidae 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAuloporoidea through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sokolov 1950