Archaeocyathida
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaeocyathaPBDB
- 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 least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 521 Mya to 509.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 505.3 Mya.
1,282 occurrences of Archaeocyathida 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
1,282 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
82 formations
- Pestrotsvet Formation194
- Usa Formation168
- Amouslek Formation62
- Upper Monok Formation40
- Upper Shangan Formation40
- Puerto Blanco Formation · Fallotaspis Group38
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The named rock units Archaeocyathida has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 58 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 76 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Archaeocyathida and its relatives
CambrianWhere Archaeocyathida and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
721 taxa- Nochoroicyathus65 sites
- Dictyocyathus64 sites
- Archaeolynthus63 sites
- Cambrocyathellus49 sites
- Dokidocyathus39 sites
- Renalcis39 sites
- Erismacoscinus37 sites
- Rotundocyathus36 sites
- Tumuliolynthus35 sites
- Coscinocyathus32 sites
- Protopharetra32 sites
- Tumulocyathus29 sites
- Archaeocyathus28 sites
- Epiphyton27 sites
- Okulitchicyathus26 sites
- Paranacyathus26 sites
- Ajacicyathus25 sites
- Capsulocyathus23 sites
- Sibirecyathus21 sites
- Loculicyathus20 sites
- Girvanella18 sites
- Irinaecyathus18 sites
- Fransuasaecyathus16 sites
- Orbicyathus16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 159 sites for Archaeocyathida, 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
86 references- Stratigrafiya i arkheotsiaty nizhnego kembriya Altaye-Sayanskoy skladchatoy oblasti [Lower Cambrian stratigraphy and archaeocyatha of the Altay-Sayan fold belt]257
- Biostratigraphy of the Kiya River section. - Early Cambrian Archaeocyaths and spicular sponges from the Kiya River section (Kuznetsk Alatau)115
- Rannekembriyskiye fatsialnyye kompleksy arkheotsiat (r. Lena, sredneye techeniye) [Lower Cambrian archaeocyath complexes (middle Lena River)]98
- Archaeocyathids from the Atdabanian (Lower Cambrian) of the Altay-Sayan Foldbelt, Russia94
- Archaeocyaths of the Lower Cambrian of Morocco65
- Tommotskiu jarus i problema nizhney granisty kembriya [The Tommotian Stage and the Cambrian lower Boundary problem]48
- Archaeocyatha from lower parts of the Lower Cambrian carbonate sequence in South Australia46
- Primordial metazoan-calcimicrobial reefs: Tommotian (Early Cambrian) of the Siberian Platform45
- Lower Cambrian bioconstructions in Northwestern Mexico (Sonora). Depositional setting, paleoecology and systematics of Archaeocyaths36
- Calcaires a archaeocyathes du Cambrien inferieur du nord de la Colombie Britannique (Canada), implications paleogeographiques et precisions sur l'extension du continent Americano-Koryakien [Lower Cambrian archaeocyath limestones of northern British Columbia (Canada), paleogeographic implications and precisions on the Americano-Koryakian continent extension]23
- Archaeocyatha from the MacKenzie and Cassiar Mountains, Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory and British Columbia22
- Fossils from the Lower Cambrian of the MacKenzie Mountains (Canada)19
Each of the 1,282 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. 74 further references are not listed. 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 Archaeocyathida 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 Archaeocyathida, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeocyathida 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 itArchaeocyatha through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Okulitch 1935