Copleicyathus cymosus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CopleicyathusPBDB
- 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 5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 516 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Copleicyathus cymosus 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
2 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
2 formations
- Kulpara Formation1
- Wilkawillina Limestone Formation · Hawker Group1
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The named rock units Copleicyathus cymosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Copleicyathus cymosus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Copleicyathus cymosus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Ajacicyathida1 site
- Anaptyctocyathus1 site
- Beltanacyathus1 site
- Deceptioncyathus synapticulosus1 site
- Dokidocyathus osseus1 site
- Gordonicyathus1 site
- Spirillicyathus1 site
- Tumulocyathus transitus1 site
- Usloncyathus obtusus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Copleicyathus cymosus, 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
2 references- Archaeocyaths from Yorke Peninsula, South Australia and archaeocyathan Early Cambrian zonation1
- Archaeocyatha from lower parts of the Lower Cambrian carbonate sequence in South Australia1
Each of the 2 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 Copleicyathus cymosus 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 Copleicyathus cymosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Copleicyathus cymosus 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 itCopleicyathus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gravestock 1984