Mitrocystella
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MitrocystitidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Mitrata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Mitrata
- Motility
- passively mobilePBDB, for Mitrata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Stylophora
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 468 Mya to 461 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 477.1 Mya to 458.2 Mya.
3 occurrences of Mitrocystella 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
3 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Mitrocystella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mitrocystella and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Mitrocystella and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
153 taxa- Selenopeltis3 sites
- Archinacella2 sites
- Balanocystites2 sites
- Bohemilla2 sites
- Colpocoryphe2 sites
- Degamella2 sites
- Didymograptus2 sites
- Ectillaenus2 sites
- Ellipsotaphrus2 sites
- Girvanopyge2 sites
- Gompholites2 sites
- Microparia2 sites
- Nobiliasaphus2 sites
- Ormathops2 sites
- Palaeoglossa2 sites
- Parabarrandia2 sites
- Pateraspis2 sites
- Peruniscus2 sites
- Placoparia2 sites
- Pricyclopyge2 sites
- Prionocheilus2 sites
- Redonia2 sites
- Sinuites2 sites
- Uralichas2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Mitrocystella, 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
3 references- Chlupáč et al., 19981
- Estudio bioestratigrafico del Llanvirn y Llandeilo (Dobrotiviense) en la parte meridional de la zona Centroiberica (España)1
- Early Ordovician (Arenig) stratigraphy and faunas of the Carmarthen District, southwest Wales1
Each of the 3 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 Mitrocystella 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 Mitrocystella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mitrocystella 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 itMitrocystitida through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.