Conocyathus

Conocyathus

Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012) · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
TurbinoliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Turbinoliidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Turbinoliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Paleocene — about 5 of 22 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 5 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 5 of 22 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 7 of 22 occurrencesMiocene63–61 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–55 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–9.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.9–8.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.0–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences59.24 Mya11.63 Mya63 Mya6 Mya

22 occurrences of Conocyathus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

22 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

7 formations

Ewekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°EGrafenberg — 51.55°N, 6.60°EGrafenberg — 51.08°N, 6.32°ECalcaire grosse — 49.25°N, 1.88°ECalcaire grosse — 48.80°N, 1.88°EPort Campbell Limestone — 37.72°S, 141.93°ESables a Nummulites variolarius — 49.25°N, 2.50°EBarton Beds — 50.67°N, 1.08°WTermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°E

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The named rock units Conocyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Conocyathus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Conocyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

811 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Conocyathus, 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

13 references

Each of the 22 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. 1 further reference is 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 Conocyathus

Credit
Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012)
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Conocyathus 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. d'Orbigny 1849