Cupitheca

No picture of Cupitheca was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cupitheca itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cupitheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OrthothecidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hyolitha

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 530.7 Mya to 508 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 503 Mya.

Cambrian — about 116 of 116 occurrencesCambrian540–538 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences538–537 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences537–536 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences536–535 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences535–533 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences533–532 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences532–531 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences531–530 Mya — about 3 occurrences530–528 Mya — about 4 occurrences528–527 Mya — about 4 occurrences527–526 Mya — about 4 occurrences526–525 Mya — about 5 occurrences525–523 Mya — about 5 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 5 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 5 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 4 occurrences520–518 Mya — about 4 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 4 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 5 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 13 occurrences515–513 Mya — about 14 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 14 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 5 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 4 occurrences510–508 Mya — about 2 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 3 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 3 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 3 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 2 occurrences504–502 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences530.7 Mya508 Mya539.5 Mya502.3 Mya

116 occurrences of Cupitheca 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

116 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

29 formations

Parara Limestone — 34.92°S, 137.80°EZhujiaqing — 27.93°N, 103.56°EZhujiaqing — 24.73°N, 102.57°EZhujiaqing — 25.52°N, 103.07°EZhujiaqing — 26.28°N, 103.22°EZhujiaqing — 26.38°N, 103.21°EParara — 34.70°S, 137.71°EParara — 34.06°S, 138.02°EParara — 34.73°S, 137.63°EParara — 34.80°S, 137.69°EBeetle Creek — 21.83°S, 139.98°EDengying — 33.00°N, 107.92°EDengying — 30.73°N, 111.13°EDengying — 30.77°N, 111.12°EDengying — 32.53°N, 107.92°EDengying — 33.67°N, 109.46°EBastion — 74.35°N, 22.77°WBastion — 74.10°N, 23.00°WWirrealpa Limestone — 31.27°S, 138.93°EAjax Limestone — 30.59°S, 138.33°ESellick Hill — 35.37°S, 138.38°EYanjiahe — 30.78°N, 111.35°EFosters Point — 45.77°N, 60.29°WElla Island — 74.10°N, 22.98°WXinji — 34.53°N, 110.87°EXinji — 34.90°N, 106.85°EHuangshandong — 30.78°N, 111.15°EHuangshandong — 30.77°N, 111.13°EGuojiaba — 36.85°N, 109.31°EBrigus — 45.77°N, 60.29°WCape Melville — 62.03°S, 57.60°WForteau — 49.60°N, 57.83°WCoobowie Limestone — 34.67°S, 137.85°EKulpara Limestone — 34.92°S, 137.80°EKulpara — 34.70°S, 137.71°EMinlaton — 34.80°S, 137.69°EYurtus — 40.88°N, 79.47°EKuanchuanpu — 32.97°N, 106.25°E

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The named rock units Cupitheca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cupitheca and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Cupitheca and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

471 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 97 sites for Cupitheca, 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

27 references

Each of the 116 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. 15 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 content0

No picture of Cupitheca was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cupitheca itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cupitheca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Duan 1984