Cadniacyathus
No picture of Cadniacyathus 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 Cadniacyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DensocyathidaePBDB
- 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 7.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 516 Mya and 508.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cadniacyathus 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 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.
Cadniacyathus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Cadniacyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Annulocyathus1 site
- Annulofungia1 site
- Araneocyathus1 site
- Bija1 site
- Botomaella1 site
- Compositocyathus1 site
- Coscinocyathella1 site
- Coscinocyathellidae1 site
- Coscinocyathus1 site
- Mackenziecyathus1 site
- Renalcis1 site
- Sibirecyathus1 site
- Tegerocyathus1 site
- Tumulocoscinius sp.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cadniacyathus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Cadniacyathus 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 Cadniacyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cadniacyathus 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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What may have been alongside itDensocyathidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.