Strobilocystites

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CallocystitidaePBDB
- 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 24 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 358.86 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Strobilocystites on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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- Devonian100%
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.
Strobilocystites and its relatives
DevonianWhere Strobilocystites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Acrotretida1 site
- Adocetocystis1 site
- Agelacrinites1 site
- Clinolithes1 site
- Cornulites1 site
- Foraminifera1 site
- Hernodia1 site
- Leptotrypella1 site
- Pachyphyllum1 site
- Spirorbis1 site
- Tabulata1 site
- Timeischytes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Strobilocystites, 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
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Strobilocystites
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Strobilocystites 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 itCallocystitidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. White 1876