Cystiophyllum sp.
No picture of Cystiophyllum sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cystiophyllum sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 7.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 440.5 Mya and 432.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cystiophyllum sp. 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
2 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Cystiophyllum sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cystiophyllum sp. and its relatives
SilurianWhere Cystiophyllum sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- Heliolites2 sites
- Tabularia2 sites
- Tryplasma2 sites
- Amplexoides1 site
- Ceriaster1 site
- Codonophyllum1 site
- Contrillia sp.1 site
- Cystiphyllum (Cysticonophyllum)1 site
- Cystiphyllum (Gyalophyllum)1 site
- Falsicatenipora1 site
- Favosites1 site
- Halysites1 site
- Harpidium (Isovella)1 site
- Holmophyllum1 site
- Holocatenipora sp.1 site
- Innapora1 site
- Kodonophyllum1 site
- Mesofavosites1 site
- Mesosolenia1 site
- Microplasma1 site
- Multisolenia1 site
- Nalivkina sp.1 site
- Neosichuanoceras1 site
- Ningqiangolites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cystiophyllum sp., 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- Reef Reconstruction after Extinction Events of the Latest Ordovician in the Yangtze Platform, South China1
- Biotic structure and morphology of patch reefs from South China (Ningqiang Formation, Telychian, Llandovery, Silurian)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 Cystiophyllum sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cystiophyllum sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Cystiophyllum sp. 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 itFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.