Ctenocystis utahensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CtenocystisPBDB
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Ctenocystoida
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ctenocystoidea
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 509.7 Mya and 505.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Ctenocystis utahensis on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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- Cambrian100%
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 Ctenocystis utahensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ctenocystis utahensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Ctenocystis utahensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Acinocricus stichus1 site
- Amecephalus idahoense1 site
- Anomalocaris nathorsti1 site
- Arthropoda1 site
- Athabaskia bithus1 site
- Athabaskia wasatchensis1 site
- Branchiocaris pretiosa1 site
- Brooksella1 site
- Bythicheilus typicum1 site
- Canadaspis perfecta1 site
- Canadia1 site
- Dioxycaris1 site
- Eldonia ludwigi1 site
- Glossopleura gigantea1 site
- Gogia granulosa1 site
- Gogia guntheri1 site
- Gogia kitchnerensis1 site
- Haplophrentis carinatus1 site
- Haplophrentis reesei1 site
- Hyolithes1 site
- Kootenia1 site
- Leanchoilia hanceyi1 site
- Marpolia1 site
- Morania fragmenta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ctenocystis utahensis, 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- Biostratigraphy of the Albertella and Glossopleura zones (lower Middle Cambrian) of northern Utah and southern Idaho2
- Exceptionally preserved nontrilobite arthropods and Anomalocaris from the Middle Cambrian of Utah1
- Morphology and evolution of blastozoan echinoderms1
Each 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. 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
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Imran Rahman
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Ctenocystis utahensis 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 Ctenocystis utahensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCtenocystis through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Robison and Sprinkle 1969