Phytopsis
No picture of Phytopsis 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 Phytopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TetradiidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tetradiidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tetradiidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Tetradiida
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 458.2 Mya and 445.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Phytopsis 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
1 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 Phytopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phytopsis and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Phytopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
36 taxa- Acanthocordylodus1 site
- Acanthocordylodus fidelis1 site
- Acanthodina1 site
- Acanthodina regalis1 site
- Belodina1 site
- Carinodictya1 site
- Ceramopora1 site
- Cryptophillum densum1 site
- Cystostroma1 site
- Drepanodictacodus victrix1 site
- Ensipora1 site
- Evenkina1 site
- Fibriapora multifora1 site
- Fibriapora plebeia1 site
- Lenatoechia1 site
- Loxoplocus1 site
- Murchisonia sp.1 site
- Nyctopora1 site
- Panderodus gracilis1 site
- Pararaphistoma qualteriata1 site
- Paratetradium1 site
- Phaenoporella1 site
- Phragmodus1 site
- Prismostylus fibratum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Phytopsis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content0
No picture of Phytopsis 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 Phytopsis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phytopsis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTetradiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hall 1847