Cystelasma
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PentaphyllinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 351.9 Mya to 342.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
4 occurrences of Cystelasma on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Devonian13%
- Carboniferous88%
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
4 formations
- Represo Formation1
- Rockford Limestone Formation1
- Ste. Genevieve Limestone Formation1
- Lodgepole Formation · Madison Group1
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The named rock units Cystelasma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cystelasma and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Cystelasma and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
170 taxa- Girtyella3 sites
- Camarotoechia2 sites
- Caninia2 sites
- Conocardium2 sites
- Cyrtina burlingtonensis2 sites
- Cyrtospirifer latior2 sites
- Homalophyllites2 sites
- Platycrinites2 sites
- Schuchertella2 sites
- Stelechophyllum microstylum2 sites
- Syringopora2 sites
- ? Dielasmoides sp.1 site
- Achistrum1 site
- Ammobaculites1 site
- Ammodiscus1 site
- Amphipsalidocrinus inconsuetus1 site
- Amphissites1 site
- Amplexizaphrentis1 site
- Amygdallophyllum inclinatum1 site
- Amygdallophyllum sp.1 site
- Angyomphalus northviewensis1 site
- Anopliopsis subcarinata1 site
- Asterozoa1 site
- Bairdia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cystelasma, 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
4 references- Paleoecology and Sedimentology of the Rockford Limestone and Upper New Albany Shale (Lower Mississippian) in southern Indiana1
- Geology of the Bristol and Wallace quadrangles, Virginia1
- Faunal Zonation and Stratigraphy of the Mississippian Madison Group: Wyoming and Montana1
- Mississippian fauna in northwestern Sonora, Mexico1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Cystelasma 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 Cystelasma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cystelasma 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPentaphyllinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller 1891