Cyathophora

Cyathophora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyathophoridaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Cyathophoridae
Life habit
colonialPBDB, for Cyathophoridae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 67 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 144 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 14 of 144 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 62 of 144 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 66 of 144 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 144 occurrencesLate Cretaceous177–173 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences173–170 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 5 occurrences167–164 Mya — about 6 occurrences164–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–158 Mya — about 7 occurrences158–154 Mya — about 11 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 11 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 9 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 13 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 11 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–135 Mya — about 3 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 5 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–126 Mya — about 1 occurrence126–123 Mya — about 11 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 22 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 5 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 4 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 4 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 3 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168.2 Mya100.5 Mya177 Mya82 Mya

144 occurrences of Cyathophora 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

144 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

40 formations

Schrattenkalk — 47.42°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.43°N, 10.25°ESchrattenkalk — 47.51°N, 10.22°ESchrattenkalk — 47.50°N, 10.33°EStramberk Limestone — 49.58°N, 18.12°EGrodziszcze — 49.87°N, 19.77°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 21.08°EGrodziszcze — 49.93°N, 19.48°ESlivnitsa — 42.77°N, 22.75°EWhite Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WWhite Limestone — 51.70°N, 1.78°WPteroceriano — 38.93°N, 9.13°WEllipsactinia Limestones — 41.83°N, 13.97°EEspinazo del Diablo — 29.20°N, 109.50°WMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EMassenkalk — 48.89°N, 11.94°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.70°EKorallenoolith — 52.25°N, 9.60°ETataouine — 32.57°N, 10.35°ETataouine — 32.92°N, 10.45°EGrodziszcze Conglomerates — 49.83°N, 19.93°ELangshan — 33.45°N, 79.70°ELangshan — 31.38°N, 89.00°ECumburindio — 18.52°N, 100.93°WSchrattenkalk — 47.37°N, 10.13°EAlisitos — 31.52°N, 116.65°WOrbitolina Limestone — 33.05°N, 51.95°EForest Marble — 51.00°N, 1.00°WKorond — 34.17°N, 56.83°EIshido — 36.00°N, 138.67°ESenyus — 42.25°N, 1.35°EAlcobaça — 39.55°N, 8.98°WSobral — 38.93°N, 9.05°WErnstbrunn — 48.87°N, 16.67°E

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The named rock units Cyathophora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 71 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyathophora and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,424 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 86 sites for Cyathophora, 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

77 references

Each of the 144 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. 65 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 Cyathophora

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyathophora 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Michelin 1843