Cyathidites

No picture of Cyathidites 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 Cyathidites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PteridopsidaPBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 172 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 945 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 945 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 945 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 42 of 945 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 335 of 945 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 326 of 945 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 152 of 945 occurrencesEocene — about 33 of 945 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 945 occurrencesMiocene — about 36 of 945 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 945 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 945 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences192–185 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences178–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 6 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 10 occurrences157–151 Mya — about 15 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 15 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 6 occurrences137–130 Mya — about 6 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 15 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 71 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 131 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 84 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 79 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 29 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 8 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 28 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 129 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 216 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 16 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 20 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 6 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 12 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 18 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 13 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences174.7 Mya2.58 Mya205 Mya0 Mya

945 occurrences of Cyathidites on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

945 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

95 formations

Riachuelo — 10.65°S, 37.04°WMonte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WChorrillo — 50.50°S, 72.56°WLefipán — 42.67°S, 69.83°WLefipán — 42.58°S, 69.98°WTambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°ERunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°EBathurst Island — 11.79°S, 130.23°EBathurst Island — 11.78°S, 130.35°EFort Union — 46.35°N, 103.87°WFort Union — 46.02°N, 103.76°WLa Colonia — 42.99°S, 67.67°WLa Colonia — 43.10°S, 67.75°WLa Colonia — 43.01°S, 67.62°WLa Colonia — 42.97°S, 67.54°WKatrol — 23.34°N, 69.66°EKatrol — 23.27°N, 69.65°EBhuj — 23.32°N, 69.77°EBhuj — 23.79°N, 68.85°EBhuj — 23.60°N, 69.00°EBhuj — 23.29°N, 69.70°EBentiu — 9.35°N, 29.13°EHell Creek — 46.29°N, 103.95°WHell Creek — 46.02°N, 103.76°WMuribeca — 10.65°S, 37.04°WCerro Dorotea — 51.59°S, 72.41°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.31°S, 56.88°WLópez de Bertodano — 64.33°S, 56.85°WTalme Yafe — 31.65°N, 34.61°EAgua Doce — 3.69°S, 44.56°WAllen — 37.92°S, 68.48°WAllen — 38.78°S, 67.93°WCerro Cazador — 51.59°S, 72.41°WCerro Cazador — 51.18°S, 72.22°WSalamanca — 45.40°S, 67.12°WSalamanca — 45.82°S, 69.03°WSalamanca — 45.29°S, 67.04°WSalamanca — 45.81°S, 69.06°WSalamanca — 45.91°S, 69.21°WKachaike — 49.06°S, 72.14°WKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WKachaike — 49.00°S, 72.00°WKharita — 29.00°N, 29.00°EKharita — 29.86°N, 28.74°ETaratu — 43.18°S, 171.78°E

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The named rock units Cyathidites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 71 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 132 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyathidites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cyathidites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,029 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 397 sites for Cyathidites, and this reads 240 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

100 references

Each of the 945 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. 88 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 Cyathidites 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 Cyathidites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cyathidites 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 itPteridopsida through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Couper 1953