Cyathidites punctatus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 99 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 41 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 41 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 21 of 41 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 41 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 41 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences156–152 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 4 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 5 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 4 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 4 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 7 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences165.3 Mya66 Mya170 Mya60 Mya

41 occurrences of Cyathidites punctatus 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

41 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

11 formations

Monte Chico — 51.59°S, 72.41°WMonte Chico — 51.18°S, 72.29°WTambo — 27.34°S, 135.72°ETambo — 29.13°S, 140.88°ERunnymede — 37.37°S, 140.90°EKachaike — 48.82°S, 72.12°WKachaike — 49.00°S, 72.00°WKatrol — 23.30°N, 69.66°EScollard — 51.93°N, 112.83°WGrès à Trigonies — 38.85°N, 9.33°WCalcaires récifaux supérieurs — 38.78°N, 9.23°WGrès inférieurs — 38.85°N, 9.33°WSanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.96°WUkureyskaya — 52.52°N, 116.72°E

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The named rock units Cyathidites punctatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyathidites punctatus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

424 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Cyathidites punctatus, 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

10 references

Each of the 41 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. 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

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No picture of Cyathidites punctatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 punctatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Delcourt et al. 1963