Cystolonsdaleia

Cystolonsdaleia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PetalaxidaePBDB
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 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 7 of 16 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 9 of 16 occurrencesPermian324–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 1 occurrence306–304 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 3 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 3 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 3 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315.2 Mya283.3 Mya324 Mya273 Mya

16 occurrences of Cystolonsdaleia on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

16 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

8 formations

Ambition — 57.23°N, 130.85°WAmbition — 57.39°N, 130.85°WBelcher Channel — 80.14°N, 80.83°WCanyon Fiord — 81.93°N, 73.22°WHare Fiord — 80.74°N, 85.75°WChuanshan — 30.88°N, 120.05°ECoyote Butte — 43.99°N, 119.75°WMcGregor Creek — 50.74°N, 120.12°WIdmarrach — 33.44°N, 5.22°W

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The named rock units Cystolonsdaleia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cystolonsdaleia and its relatives

Permian

Where Cystolonsdaleia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cystolonsdaleia, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

8 references

Each of the 16 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

Picture of Cystolonsdaleia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Cystolonsdaleia was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

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What may have been alongside itPetalaxidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fomichev 1953