Callocystitidae

Callocystitidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlyptocystitoidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhombifera
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Rhombifera
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhombifera
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhombifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 452.8 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Ordovician — about 11 of 61 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 42 of 61 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 8 of 61 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 61 occurrences459–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–452 Mya — about 2 occurrences452–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–446 Mya — about 6 occurrences446–442 Mya — about 1 occurrence442–439 Mya — about 5 occurrences439–435 Mya — about 4 occurrences435–432 Mya — about 6 occurrences432–429 Mya — about 10 occurrences429–425 Mya — about 6 occurrences425–422 Mya — about 6 occurrences422–418 Mya — about 6 occurrences418–415 Mya — about 2 occurrences415–411 Mya — about 1 occurrence411–408 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences408–405 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences405–401 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences401–398 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences398–394 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences394–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–381 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences381–377 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences377–374 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences374–371 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences364–360 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences360–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452.8 Mya382.31 Mya459 Mya357 Mya

61 occurrences of Callocystitidae on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

61 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

31 formations

Keyser Limestone — 39.64°N, 77.66°WKeyser Limestone — 39.43°N, 78.97°WKeyser Limestone — 39.45°N, 78.97°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.52°N, 2.10°WMuch Wenlock Limestone — 52.58°N, 1.98°WRochester Shale — 43.15°N, 77.62°WRochester Shale — 43.10°N, 79.06°WBrassfield — 39.34°N, 85.48°WBrassfield — 39.81°N, 83.98°WScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 91.00°WScotch Grove — 41.77°N, 91.13°WScotch Grove — 41.85°N, 90.18°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WWhitewater — 39.83°N, 84.89°WWhitewater — 39.00°N, 84.00°WManitoulin — 45.83°N, 82.33°WManitoulin — 45.97°N, 81.93°WCoeymans — 42.67°N, 74.32°WCoeymans — 42.86°N, 74.80°WVasalemma — 58.79°N, 25.58°EVasalemma — 59.36°N, 26.33°EClam Bank — 48.65°N, 59.02°WOrchard Creek Shale — 37.19°N, 89.45°WElkhorn — 39.00°N, 84.00°WBrainard — 42.94°N, 91.71°WGasport Limstone — 43.20°N, 78.58°WIsakov Beds — 49.58°N, 23.90°EBrainard Shale — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNeda — 42.00°N, 90.50°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WScales — 37.23°N, 89.47°WBlanding — 42.40°N, 91.30°WHopkinton — 42.17°N, 90.58°WLaurel — 39.50°N, 85.47°WRochester — 43.17°N, 79.03°W

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The named rock units Callocystitidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Callocystitidae and its relatives

Silurian

Where Callocystitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

834 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 47 sites for Callocystitidae, 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

22 references

Each of the 61 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. 10 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 Callocystitidae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bernard 1895