Cyathophycus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HintzespongiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Reticulosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Reticulosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Reticulosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hexactinellida
Environment
marinePBDB, for Hexactinellida

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 486.85 Mya to 382.31 Mya.

Cambrian — about 0 of 17 occurrencesOrdovician — about 13 of 17 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 3 of 17 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 1 of 17 occurrencesDevonian489–485 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences485–482 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences482–478 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences478–474 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences474–471 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences471–467 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences467–464 Mya — about 1 occurrence464–460 Mya — about 1 occurrence460–456 Mya — about 3 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 4 occurrences453–449 Mya — about 1 occurrence445–442 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences442–438 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences438–435 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences435–431 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences431–427 Mya — about 1 occurrence427–424 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences424–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences384–380 Mya — about 1 occurrence477.1 Mya383.4 Mya489 Mya380 Mya

17 occurrences of Cyathophycus 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

17 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

10 formations

Llanfawr Mudstone — 52.23°N, 3.37°WVinini — 39.88°N, 116.25°WCanajoharie — 43.21°N, 75.46°WLos Azules — 30.18°S, 68.58°WKlabava — 49.77°N, 13.80°ERoad River — 62.40°N, 127.07°WRed River — 52.13°N, 97.52°WTrenice — 49.78°N, 13.68°EGilwern Volcanic — 52.24°N, 3.38°WRed Hill Beds — 40.05°N, 116.04°W

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The named rock units Cyathophycus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyathophycus and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cyathophycus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

141 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cyathophycus, 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

11 references

Each of the 17 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Cyathophycus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itHintzespongiidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Walcott 1879