Cubozoa

Box jellyfish are cnidarian animals distinguished by their box-like body. Some species of box jellyfish produce potent venom delivered by contact with their tentacles. Stings from some species, including Chironex fleckeri, Carukia barnesi, Malo kingi, and a few others, are extremely painful and often fatal to humans. Some species like the Carybdea murrayana produce a painful sting but are not fatal to humans.

Cubozoa

Avispa marina.jpg : Guido Gautsch , Toyota, Japan derivative work: Mithril ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/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
Also called
box jellyfishPBDB
Sits inside
MedusozoaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 184 million years on record.

The record covers at least 497 Mya to 312.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 506.5 Mya to 306 Mya.

Cambrian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 3 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous511–504 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences504–497 Mya — about 2 occurrences316–309 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences309–302 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences497 Mya312.8 Mya511 Mya302 Mya

3 occurrences of Cubozoa on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

3 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

2 formations

Marjum — 39.27°N, 113.30°WCarbondale — 41.22°N, 88.22°W

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

Cubozoa and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Cubozoa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

113 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cubozoa, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Cubozoa

Credit
Avispa marina.jpg : Guido Gautsch , Toyota, Japan derivative work: Mithril ( talk )
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
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

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
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.