Glyptocystitidae

Strabocystis fayi Sprinkle, 1982, a relative of Glyptocystitidae — not Glyptocystitidae itself

Not Glyptocystitidae. This is Strabocystis fayi Sprinkle, 1982, a relative — both are Glyptocystitidae.

Theisen, Leon · CC BY 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
GlyptocystitoidaPBDB
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 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 448.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 445.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 46 occurrencesOrdovician — about 46 of 46 occurrencesOrdovician488–486 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences486–485 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences485–483 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences483–482 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences482–480 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences480–479 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences479–478 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences478–476 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences472–470 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences470–469 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences469–467 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences459–457 Mya — about 2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 5 occurrences456–454 Mya — about 5 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 7 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 8 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 6 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences477.1 Mya448.8 Mya487.7 Mya444.4 Mya

46 occurrences of Glyptocystitidae 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

46 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

16 formations

Bromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WBromide — 34.41°N, 96.98°WBromide — 34.07°N, 97.17°WBromide — 34.46°N, 96.52°WVerulam — 44.75°N, 79.33°WVerulam — 45.42°N, 75.72°WDunleith — 37.07°N, 89.57°WDunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WBadger Flat — 36.91°N, 118.06°WBadger Flat — 36.95°N, 118.08°WBobcaygeon — 44.53°N, 78.55°WBobcaygeon — 44.58°N, 79.09°WSimard — 48.64°N, 71.20°WWenallt — 51.83°N, 3.58°WPlatteville — 44.00°N, 92.00°WProsser Limestone — 44.00°N, 92.00°WGrand Detour — 42.00°N, 90.50°WNachusa — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDay Point — 44.61°N, 73.44°WOttawa — 45.52°N, 73.60°WGarden City — 42.11°N, 111.63°WCape Calhoun — 80.08°N, 67.00°WKirkfield — 44.56°N, 78.98°W

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The named rock units Glyptocystitidae 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.

Glyptocystitidae and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Glyptocystitidae and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

446 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Glyptocystitidae, 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

18 references

Each of the 46 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. 6 further references are not listed. 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 Strabocystis fayi Sprinkle, 1982

Source
GBIF
Credit
Theisen, Leon
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Glyptocystitidae 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 itGlyptocystitoida through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

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