Cyathaxonia

Cyathaxonia

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyathaxoniidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 162 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Silurian — about 4 of 96 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 96 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 84 of 96 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 7 of 96 occurrencesPermian436–430 Mya — about 1 occurrence430–424 Mya — about 2 occurrences424–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences370–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–358 Mya — about 2 occurrences358–352 Mya — about 17 occurrences352–346 Mya — about 21 occurrences346–340 Mya — about 19 occurrences340–334 Mya — about 9 occurrences334–328 Mya — about 7 occurrences328–322 Mya — about 2 occurrences322–316 Mya — about 2 occurrences316–310 Mya — about 3 occurrences310–304 Mya — about 2 occurrences304–298 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences292–286 Mya — about 1 occurrence286–280 Mya — about 3 occurrences268–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence426.7 Mya264.28 Mya436 Mya256 Mya

96 occurrences of Cyathaxonia on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

96 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

47 formations

Tin Mountain — 36.33°N, 116.52°WTin Mountain — 36.54°N, 117.04°WTin Mountain — 36.39°N, 117.43°WEdwardsville — 39.25°N, 86.33°WEdwardsville — 39.04°N, 86.50°WBlack Rock — 51.33°N, 2.74°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WFeltrim — 53.62°N, 6.92°WAlan Mountain Limestone — 47.42°N, 105.59°WRacine — 43.04°N, 87.91°WIchinotani — 36.00°N, 137.00°ECarwood — 38.50°N, 85.83°WCarwood — 38.32°N, 85.90°WWeaver Beds — 52.80°N, 2.10°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WGoughs Canyon — 41.14°N, 117.34°WGoughs Canyon — 41.14°N, 117.36°WRockford Limestone — 38.48°N, 85.75°WLodgepole — 43.83°N, 111.75°WPicos de Europa — 43.32°N, 5.05°WSisophon — 13.60°N, 102.96°ESisophon — 13.59°N, 102.94°EBrazer Dolomite — 40.16°N, 110.40°WNew Providence Shale — 38.50°N, 85.92°WMonte Cristo Limestone — 38.43°N, 113.56°WDeseret Limestone — 39.90°N, 113.71°WBorden — 38.50°N, 85.92°WCastle Reef Dolomite — 47.42°N, 105.59°WSalem Limestone — 37.31°N, 85.44°WChapin — 42.84°N, 93.23°WRepreso — 30.72°N, 112.35°W

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The named rock units Cyathaxonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 23 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyathaxonia and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cyathaxonia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

796 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 79 sites for Cyathaxonia, 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

52 references

Each of the 96 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. 40 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 content1

Picture of Cyathaxonia

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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What may have been alongside itCyathaxoniidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Michelin 1847