Coscinocyathus

Coscinocyathus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
CoscinocyathidaePBDB
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 least 5.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 515.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 508.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 175 of 175 occurrencesCambrian526–525 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 2 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 2 occurrences524–524 Mya — about 2 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 2 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 2 occurrences522–522 Mya — about 2 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 2 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 10 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 12 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 12 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 12 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 12 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 12 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 12 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 12 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 10 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 9 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 9 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 8 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 8 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 8 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 6 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 1 occurrence511–511 Mya — about 1 occurrence511–510 Mya — about 1 occurrence510–510 Mya — about 1 occurrence510–509 Mya — about 1 occurrence509–508 Mya — about 1 occurrence508–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences521 Mya515.3 Mya526 Mya507.7 Mya

175 occurrences of Coscinocyathus 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

175 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

40 formations

Pestrotsvet — 61.02°N, 126.15°EPestrotsvet — 61.03°N, 126.13°EPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 128.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.33°EPestrotsvet — 66.40°N, 112.28°EPestrotsvet — 71.83°N, 107.00°EPestrotsvet — 61.29°N, 135.50°EPestrotsvet — 61.07°N, 126.18°EUsa — 54.00°N, 90.75°EUsa — 54.23°N, 90.82°EMatoppa — 39.27°N, 8.47°EMatoppa — 39.18°N, 8.55°EMatoppa — 39.35°N, 8.45°EMatoppa — 39.40°N, 8.45°EMatoppa — 39.37°N, 8.52°EXidashan — 41.50°N, 90.00°EUpper Monok — 52.83°N, 90.25°EUpper Monok — 52.25°N, 89.03°EUpper Monok — 52.83°N, 90.43°EUpper Monok — 52.40°N, 89.07°EOi-Muran Reef Massif — 61.07°N, 126.18°ESekwi — 59.27°N, 129.18°WSekwi — 63.55°N, 129.25°WKotuy — 68.53°N, 105.23°EKotuy — 68.58°N, 105.23°EKotuy — 69.02°N, 103.85°ETyuser — 71.57°N, 127.37°ETyuser — 71.52°N, 127.37°ETyuser — 71.07°N, 127.43°ETyuser — 71.03°N, 127.48°EBalakhtison — 53.77°N, 93.48°EAjax Limestone — 30.58°S, 138.32°EAjax Limestone — 30.60°S, 138.35°ETaryn — 61.03°N, 126.13°EBazaikha — 55.97°N, 92.92°ETorgashino — 55.97°N, 92.92°EDedebulak — 40.40°N, 72.35°EEvol — 42.33°N, 2.85°EZwethau — 51.63°N, 13.55°EKrasnoporog — 67.22°N, 87.03°ETodd River Dolomite — 23.52°S, 134.47°ETodd River Dolomite — 23.90°S, 134.33°EOymuranskiy — 62.00°N, 129.67°EKhuzhirtai — 49.40°N, 136.38°EBuelna — 30.42°N, 111.93°WGonnesa — 39.33°N, 8.45°EPedroche — 37.92°N, 4.82°W

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The named rock units Coscinocyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coscinocyathus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Coscinocyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

298 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Coscinocyathus, 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

34 references

Each of the 175 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. 22 further references are 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 content2

Picture of Coscinocyathus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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. Bornemann 1884