Cheirocystis ardmorensis
No picture of Cheirocystis ardmorensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Cheirocystis ardmorensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CheirocystisPBDB
- 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 most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 471.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cheirocystis ardmorensis 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
2 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cheirocystis ardmorensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cheirocystis ardmorensis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cheirocystis ardmorensis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Amygdalocystites florealis1 site
- Apodasmocrinus1 site
- Archaeocrinus1 site
- Archaeocrinus lacunosus1 site
- Carabocrinus1 site
- Carabocrinus treadwelli1 site
- Cheirocrinus logani1 site
- Cleiocrinus regius1 site
- Cyathocystis1 site
- Dendrocrinus1 site
- Echinosphaerites aurantium1 site
- Ectenocrinus1 site
- Eumorphocystis multiporata1 site
- Glyptocystella1 site
- Glyptocystis forbesi1 site
- Glyptocystites1 site
- Glyptocystites loeblichae1 site
- Glyptocystites multipora1 site
- Glyptocystites regnelli1 site
- Hesperocystis deckeri1 site
- Hybocrinus1 site
- Hybocrinus nitidus1 site
- Lepadocystis moorei1 site
- Palaeocrinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cheirocystis ardmorensis, 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
2 references- Previous studies of Bromide echinoderms1
- Cheirocystella antiqua gen. et. sp. nov. from the Lower Ordovician of western Utah and its bearing on the evolution of the Cheirocrinidae (Rhombifera: Glyptocystitida)1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cheirocystis ardmorensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Cheirocystis ardmorensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cheirocystis ardmorensis 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 itCheirocystis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bassler 1943)