Dactylocystis schmidti

Dactylocystis schmidti

Männil, Ralf · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DactylocystisPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Blastozoa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Blastozoa
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Blastozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 452.8 Mya and 451.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 1 of 1 occurrenceOrdovician453–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453.3 Mya451.3 Mya

1 occurrence of Dactylocystis schmidti 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

1 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

1 formation

Vasalemma — 59.28°N, 24.65°E

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The named rock units Dactylocystis schmidti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Dactylocystis schmidti and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Dactylocystis schmidti and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dactylocystis schmidti, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Dactylocystis schmidti

Source
GBIF
Credit
Männil, Ralf
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Dactylocystis schmidti 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 itDactylocystis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jaeckel 1899