Fisherites reticulatus

Fisherites reticulatus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
FisheritesPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Receptaculitidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Receptaculitidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Receptaculitidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Receptaculitidae

Time the record covers

At least 4.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 449.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 10 of 10 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 10 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453.8 Mya449.6 Mya457.8 Mya442.6 Mya

10 occurrences of Fisherites reticulatus 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

10 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

3 formations

Farr — 47.42°N, 79.60°WFarr — 47.45°N, 79.65°WFarr — 47.45°N, 79.65°WFarr — 47.42°N, 79.48°WLake Waswanipi Limestone — 49.47°N, 76.47°WEly Springs — 36.39°N, 115.47°W

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

Fisherites reticulatus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Fisherites reticulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Fisherites reticulatus, 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

Each of the 10 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Fisherites reticulatus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC0 Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itFisherites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Owen 1844)