Homocystites alter
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HomocystitesPBDB
- 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 most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 459.3 Mya and 443.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Homocystites alter 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
2 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Homocystites alter has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Homocystites alter and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Homocystites alter and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
121 taxa- Aristocystites bohemicus2 sites
- Bucanopsis comata2 sites
- Ribeiria apusoides2 sites
- Sinuitopsis neglecta2 sites
- Sinuitopsis nodosa2 sites
- Actinopeltis globosa1 site
- Aegiromena aquila1 site
- Anatifopsis bohemica1 site
- Archaeoconularia1 site
- Archaeoconularia insignis1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Barrandicella tarda1 site
- Batostoma1 site
- Bicuspina1 site
- Bohemilla1 site
- Bohemura jahni1 site
- Bucanopsina calypso1 site
- Cardiocystites bohemicus1 site
- Ceratopsis1 site
- Chlustinia keyserlingi1 site
- Climacograptus1 site
- Codiacystis1 site
- Codiacystis bohemica1 site
- Codiacystis moneta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Homocystites alter, 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
2 referencesEach of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Homocystites alter 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 Homocystites alter, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Homocystites alter was found in Sketchfab.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHomocystites through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Barrande 1887)