Archaeocyathus

Archaeocyathus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ArchaeocyathidaePBDB
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 6.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 509.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 505.3 Mya.

Cambrian — about 132 of 132 occurrencesCambrian522–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 2 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 2 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 2 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 2 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 2 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 3 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 10 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 9 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 9 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 9 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 9 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 9 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 9 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 7 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 7 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 7 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 7 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 7 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 7 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 7 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences516 Mya509.7 Mya521.5 Mya504.8 Mya

132 occurrences of Archaeocyathus 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

132 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

33 formations

Usa — 56.00°N, 88.00°EUsa — 54.00°N, 90.75°EUsa — 54.23°N, 90.82°EChekhan — 52.27°N, 89.00°EChekhan — 52.50°N, 89.33°EChekhan — 52.45°N, 89.10°EPuerto Blanco — 30.42°N, 111.93°WPuerto Blanco — 30.42°N, 111.97°WPuerto Blanco — 30.27°N, 112.03°WPuerto Blanco — 30.70°N, 112.27°WPoleta — 37.26°N, 118.16°WPoleta — 37.38°N, 117.27°WUpper Monok — 52.83°N, 90.25°EUpper Monok — 52.27°N, 89.00°EUpper Monok — 52.83°N, 90.43°EUpper Monok — 52.40°N, 89.07°EUpper Shangan — 51.40°N, 94.23°ESyys — 54.30°N, 90.75°ESekwi — 59.27°N, 129.18°WSekwi — 63.75°N, 128.80°WSekwi — 63.73°N, 129.05°WUyar — 54.60°N, 91.35°EBerikul — 56.00°N, 88.00°ETorgashino — 55.97°N, 92.92°EXiannudong — 32.50°N, 108.50°EJianchang — 39.25°N, 121.70°EIrbitey — 50.95°N, 92.83°EScott Canyon — 40.60°N, 117.10°WWirrealpa Limestone — 31.15°S, 138.92°EWirrealpa Limestone — 31.30°S, 138.90°EDmitriyevskaya — 44.50°N, 132.63°ERosella — 58.28°N, 126.73°WBalakhtison — 53.77°N, 93.48°EJindingshan — 27.55°N, 106.23°EForteau — 51.56°N, 56.75°WLancara — 42.90°N, 5.15°WBuelna — 30.70°N, 112.27°WHarkless — 37.35°N, 117.28°W

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The named rock units Archaeocyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archaeocyathus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Archaeocyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

274 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Archaeocyathus, 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

27 references

Each of the 132 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. 15 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 content1

Picture of Archaeocyathus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Archaeocyathus 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Billings 1861