Afiacyathus

No picture of Afiacyathus 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 Afiacyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EthmocyathidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 508.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

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36 occurrences of Afiacyathus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

36 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

10 formations

Amouslek — 30.38°N, 8.68°WAmouslek — 30.38°N, 8.80°WAmouslek — 30.18°N, 9.03°WMatoppa — 39.27°N, 8.47°EMatoppa — 39.35°N, 8.45°EZwethau — 51.63°N, 13.55°EIssafen — 30.80°N, 8.20°WIssafen — 30.23°N, 8.87°WXiannudong — 32.47°N, 107.23°ELemdad — 30.80°N, 8.20°WLastours — 43.32°N, 2.53°EÉvol — 42.33°N, 2.85°ELos Navalucillos Limestone — 39.67°N, 4.63°WUpper Shangan — 51.40°N, 94.23°E

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The named rock units Afiacyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Afiacyathus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Afiacyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Afiacyathus, 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

12 references

Each of the 36 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 Afiacyathus 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 Afiacyathus, 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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What may have been alongside itEthmocyathidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Voronin 1962