Archaeocyathus arborensis
No picture of Archaeocyathus arborensis 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 Archaeocyathus arborensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaeocyathusPBDB
- 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 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 520 Mya and 509.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
10 occurrences of Archaeocyathus arborensis 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
10 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
4 formations
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The named rock units Archaeocyathus arborensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Archaeocyathus arborensis and its relatives
CambrianWhere Archaeocyathus arborensis and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
34 taxa- Protopharetra5 sites
- Cordilleracyathus4 sites
- Renalcis4 sites
- Dictyocyathus3 sites
- Paranacyathus3 sites
- Arrythmocricus2 sites
- Aulocricus2 sites
- Metaldetes2 sites
- Parethmophyllum2 sites
- Rotundocyathus2 sites
- Ajacicyathus nevadensis1 site
- Archaeocyathus atlanticus1 site
- Claruscoscinus1 site
- Epiphyton1 site
- Ethmophyllum whitneyi1 site
- Gatagacyathus1 site
- Girvanella1 site
- Graphoscyphia1 site
- Hyolithellus1 site
- Hyolithellus insolitus1 site
- Kiwetinokia1 site
- Markocyathus1 site
- Metacyathellus1 site
- Palmericyathus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Archaeocyathus arborensis, 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- Lower Cambrian bioconstructions in Northwestern Mexico (Sonora). Depositional setting, paleoecology and systematics of Archaeocyaths4
- Fossils from the Lower Cambrian of the MacKenzie Mountains (Canada)2
- Cambrian reefs in the lower Poleta Formation: a new occurrence of a thick archaeocyathan reef near Gold Point, Nevada, USA1
- 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]1
- Stratigraphic distribution of archaeocyathids in the Silver Peak Range and the White and Inyo Mountains, western Nevada and Eastern California1
- Archaeocyatha from the Lower Cambrian of Inyo County, California1
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Archaeocyathus arborensis 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 Archaeocyathus arborensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Archaeocyathus arborensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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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What may have been alongside itArchaeocyathus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Okulitch 1954