Cyathochitina

Cyathochitina is an extinct genus of chitinozoans. It was described by Alfred Eisenack in 1955.

No picture of Cyathochitina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cyathochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhizopodeaPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 459.7 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 31 of 53 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 22 of 53 occurrencesSilurian469–467 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences467–466 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences466–465 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences465–463 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences463–462 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences462–460 Mya — about 2 occurrences460–459 Mya — about 1 occurrence459–457 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences455–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences452–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–449 Mya — about 5 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences446–444 Mya — about 6 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 12 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 7 occurrences442–440 Mya — about 8 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 6 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences432–430 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences429–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences459.7 Mya432.9 Mya468.8 Mya425.9 Mya

53 occurrences of Cyathochitina on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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

53 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

20 formations

Ellis Bay — 49.31°N, 61.84°WEllis Bay — 49.80°N, 64.42°WBecscie — 49.31°N, 61.84°WBecscie — 49.80°N, 64.42°WSaarde — 58.32°N, 25.50°ECedarburg — 32.30°S, 18.97°EHulderstad — 58.84°N, 24.98°ERaikküla — 58.80°N, 22.76°ERaikküla — 58.89°N, 23.46°ETamsalu — 58.89°N, 23.46°EVäo — 59.30°N, 23.36°EGualcamayo — 30.00°S, 69.00°WPont-de-Caen — 49.00°N, 1.00°WLouredo — 40.00°N, 8.00°WLower Ktaoua — 30.10°N, 6.13°WRobledo — 42.95°N, 0.83°WKlasen — 57.82°N, 18.90°ESaunja — 58.84°N, 24.98°EKorgessaare — 58.84°N, 24.98°EStirnas — 57.03°N, 22.78°EVaureal — 49.31°N, 61.84°WVarbola — 58.66°N, 25.98°EWhirlpool — 43.12°N, 79.05°W

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

Cyathochitina and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cyathochitina and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

147 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Cyathochitina, 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

14 references

Each of the 53 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. 2 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 Cyathochitina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

GBIF was not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Cyathochitina firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Cyathochitina 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.

The description on this site

Licence
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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.