Eucystis

Eucystis

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 64 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 393.47 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 469.4 Mya to 387.95 Mya.

Ordovician — about 15 of 22 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 1 of 22 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 6 of 22 occurrencesDevonian471–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–465 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences463–460 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences460–457 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences454–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–448 Mya — about 4 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 7 occurrences446–443 Mya — about 3 occurrences429–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–423 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences423–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–409 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences409–406 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences406–403 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences403–400 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences400–398 Mya — about 1 occurrence398–395 Mya — about 1 occurrence395–392 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences389–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458.2 Mya393.47 Mya471 Mya386 Mya

22 occurrences of Eucystis 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

22 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

10 formations

Boda Limestone — 60.97°N, 15.15°EBoda Limestone — 61.05°N, 15.20°EBoda Limestone — 60.07°N, 15.18°ECystoid Limestone — 41.15°N, 1.20°WCystoid Limestone — 41.17°N, 1.15°WHusbergøya — 68.82°N, 14.67°EHusbergøya — 59.88°N, 10.72°ESuchomasty — 49.92°N, 14.06°ERosebank Shale — 34.85°S, 148.87°EKraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZlíchov — 49.97°N, 14.17°EChynice — 49.97°N, 14.17°EDaleje-Trebotov — 50.03°N, 14.35°EShihtien — 24.77°N, 99.15°E

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The named rock units Eucystis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eucystis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Eucystis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

398 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Eucystis, 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

8 references

Each of the 22 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 Eucystis

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Eucystis 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 itSphaeronitidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Angelin 1878