Cystothalamiella
No picture of Cystothalamiella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Cystothalamiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FistulospongininaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Agelasida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Agelasida
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Agelasida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Agelasida
Time the record covers
At least 22 million years on record.
The record covers at least 449.5 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.
19 occurrences of Cystothalamiella 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
19 occurrences- Ordovician68%
- Silurian32%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Cystothalamiella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cystothalamiella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cystothalamiella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Rigbyetia obconica6 sites
- Amblysiphonella grossa5 sites
- Imperatoria media5 sites
- Ptychopleurella mediocostata5 sites
- Ptychopleurella uniplicata5 sites
- Skenidioides multifarius5 sites
- Aphrosalpinx textilis4 sites
- Corymbospongia adnata4 sites
- Diochthofera conspicua4 sites
- Salopina horseshoensis4 sites
- Scaphorthis4 sites
- Anoptambonites3 sites
- Aphrosalpinx nana3 sites
- Dicoelosia jonesridgensis3 sites
- Elasmothyris limata3 sites
- Epitomyonia relicina3 sites
- Eripnifera praecipitis3 sites
- Girtyocoelia epiporata3 sites
- Hesperorthis3 sites
- Imperatoria minima3 sites
- Laticrura erecta3 sites
- Nematosalpinx hormathodes3 sites
- Phragmorthis buttsi3 sites
- Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Cystothalamiella, 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- Ordovician sphinctozoan sponges from the eastern Klamath Mountains, northern California7
- Silurian aphrosalpingid sphinctozoans from Alaska and Russia6
- Ordovician sphinctozoan sponges of Alaska and Yukon Territory6
Each of the 19 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 content0
No picture of Cystothalamiella was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Cystothalamiella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cystothalamiella 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 itFistulospongininae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.