Tanaocystis

No picture of Tanaocystis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tanaocystis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GlyptocystidaePBDB
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 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 457.3 Mya and 445.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Ordovician — about 12 of 12 occurrencesOrdovician457–457 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 1 occurrence451–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 2 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–448 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences457.8 Mya444.7 Mya

12 occurrences of Tanaocystis 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

12 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

5 formations

Dunleith — 42.00°N, 90.50°WDunleith — 43.49°N, 91.87°WWise Lake — 43.28°N, 91.85°WWise Lake — 42.00°N, 90.50°WBromide — 34.00°N, 97.00°WBromide — 34.07°N, 97.17°WBromide — 34.03°N, 97.17°WProsser Limestone — 44.00°N, 92.00°WStewartville — 44.00°N, 92.00°W

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

Tanaocystis and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Tanaocystis and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

86 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Tanaocystis, 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

6 references

Each of the 12 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. 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 Tanaocystis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tanaocystis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sprinkle 1982