Mespilocystites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StephanocrinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Coronata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Coronata
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Coronata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Coronata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 461 Mya to 445.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 22 of 22 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 22 occurrences469–468 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences468–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–464 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences464–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–462 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences462–461 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences461–460 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 1 occurrence452–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 2 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 2 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 2 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 2 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 2 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences461 Mya445.2 Mya468.5 Mya442.6 Mya

22 occurrences of Mespilocystites 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

22 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

Kraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKraluv Dvur — 50.04°N, 14.41°ELetna — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELetna — 49.17°N, 16.52°EFombuena — 41.15°N, 1.20°WCystoid Limestone — 41.15°N, 1.20°WCystoid Limestone — 41.17°N, 1.15°WPortixeddu — 39.23°N, 8.51°EVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKosov — 50.00°N, 14.00°EValle Syncline Silt & Sandstone — 38.00°N, 6.00°WKráluv Dvur — 50.03°N, 14.31°EPorto de Santa Anna — 40.38°N, 8.35°WDomusnovas — 39.33°N, 8.67°EXistenta — 41.00°N, 7.00°WBronchales — 40.28°N, 1.32°WPizarras Cantera — 38.52°N, 3.56°WFerradosa — 40.31°N, 8.33°W

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

Mespilocystites and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Mespilocystites and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

429 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Mespilocystites, 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

15 references

Each of the 22 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. 3 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 content0

No picture of Mespilocystites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Mespilocystites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mespilocystites 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.

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What may have been alongside itStephanocrinidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Barrande 1877