Glyptocystitida

No picture of Glyptocystitida was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Glyptocystitida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhombiferaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rhombifera
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Rhombifera
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rhombifera
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhombifera
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 486.85 Mya to 452.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 495.2 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 7 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 6 of 7 occurrencesOrdovician496–494 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences494–493 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences493–491 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences491–489 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences489–488 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences475–474 Mya — about 2 occurrences474–472 Mya — about 2 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–449 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences448–446 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486.85 Mya452.8 Mya496 Mya444 Mya

7 occurrences of Glyptocystitida 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

7 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

4 formations

Scenic Drive — 31.84°N, 106.48°WWah Wah — 38.93°N, 113.35°WPorto de Santa Anna — 40.38°N, 8.35°WSandu — 23.35°N, 106.12°E

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

Glyptocystitida and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Glyptocystitida and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Glyptocystitida, 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

4 references

Each of the 7 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

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No picture of Glyptocystitida was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Glyptocystitida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Glyptocystitida 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 itRhombifera through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bather 1899)