Holocystites

Holocystites

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 445.2 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 2 of 43 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 41 of 43 occurrencesSilurian446–445 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences442–441 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences441–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 6 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 1 occurrence437–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–436 Mya — about 1 occurrence436–435 Mya — about 1 occurrence435–434 Mya — about 1 occurrence434–433 Mya — about 1 occurrence433–432 Mya — about 4 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 6 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 6 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 2 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences443.1 Mya432.9 Mya445.7 Mya422.2 Mya

43 occurrences of Holocystites on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

43 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

13 formations

Osgood Shale — 39.13°N, 85.30°WOsgood Shale — 39.00°N, 85.00°WRacine — 42.73°N, 87.78°WRacine — 42.88°N, 88.04°WRacine — 43.01°N, 88.38°WRacine — 41.85°N, 87.65°WOsgood — 39.07°N, 85.25°WOsgood — 38.81°N, 85.65°WWaukesha Dolomite — 38.95°N, 85.33°WWaukesha Dolomite — 41.84°N, 87.65°WOsgood Limestone — 38.28°N, 85.73°WSalamonie Dolomite — 39.38°N, 85.57°WSalamonie Dolomite — 39.00°N, 85.40°WJoliet — 41.53°N, 88.08°WJoliet Dolomite — 41.64°N, 88.06°WJoliet Dolomite — 41.67°N, 88.00°WEllis Bay — 49.38°N, 62.17°WEllis Bay — 49.44°N, 62.35°WLouisville Limestone — 40.55°N, 84.57°WGasport Limstone — 43.20°N, 78.58°WLaurel Limestone — 39.43°N, 85.63°WSt. Clair Limestone — 35.77°N, 91.63°W

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

Holocystites and its relatives

Silurian

Where Holocystites and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

361 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Holocystites, 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 43 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 content2

Picture of Holocystites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itHolocystitidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1864