Byronia

Byronia is a genus of theca-bearing cnidarians with a close affinity to the coronatid scyphozoans.

No picture of Byronia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Byronia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyolithelminthidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 17 of 17 occurrencesCambrian522–521 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 1 occurrence509–508 Mya — about 1 occurrence508–507 Mya — about 1 occurrence507–507 Mya — about 1 occurrence507–506 Mya — about 1 occurrence506–505 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences502–502 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences516 Mya504.5 Mya521.5 Mya496.5 Mya

17 occurrences of Byronia 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

17 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

8 formations

Kinzers — 40.04°N, 76.31°WKinzers — 40.12°N, 76.30°WAjax Limestone — 30.59°S, 138.33°EBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WBurgess Shale — 51.39°N, 116.43°WParara — 34.70°S, 137.71°EDuchesnay — 51.10°N, 115.95°WDuchesnay — 50.63°N, 115.60°WCape Melville — 62.03°S, 57.60°WBalang — 26.65°N, 107.95°ECal Tepe — 37.42°N, 31.85°E

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

Byronia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Byronia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Byronia, 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

9 references

Each of the 17 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 Byronia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Byronia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Byronia 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.

The description on this site

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

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What may have been alongside itHyolithelminthida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.