Oklahomacystis spissus
No picture of Oklahomacystis spissus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Oklahomacystis spissus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OklahomacystisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Paracrinoidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Paracrinoidea
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Paracrinoidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Paracrinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 7.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Oklahomacystis spissus 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 Oklahomacystis spissus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Oklahomacystis spissus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Oklahomacystis spissus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Sinclairocystis praedicta2 sites
- Amygdalocystites1 site
- Amygdalocystites florealis1 site
- Anatiferocystis papillata1 site
- Archaeocrinus1 site
- Archaeocrinus lacunosus1 site
- Carabocrinus1 site
- Cheirocrinus1 site
- Echinosphaerites aurantium1 site
- Globulocystites infundus1 site
- Glyptocystella loeblichi1 site
- Glyptocystites regnelli1 site
- Glyptorthis crenulata1 site
- Oklahomacystis tribrachiatus1 site
- Platycystites1 site
- Platycystites faberi1 site
- Praecursoricrinus sulphurensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Oklahomacystis spissus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 references- Previous studies of Bromide echinoderms1
- New Comarocystitida (Echinodermata: Paracrinoidea) from the Silurian of Iowa and Ordovician of Oklahoma1
Each 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 Oklahomacystis spissus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Oklahomacystis spissus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Oklahomacystis spissus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itOklahomacystis through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frest et al. 1980