Cyathophyllidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyathophyllinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At least 183 million years on record.
The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
195 occurrences of Cyathophyllidae on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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
195 occurrences- Ordovicianunder 1%
- Silurian26%
- Devonian70%
- Carboniferousunder 1%
- Permian4%
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
78 formations
- Vaughn Gulch Formation13
- Horn Plateau Formation6
- Kakisa Formation6
- Celechovice Limestone Formation5
- Ihmert Formation5
- Hume Formation5
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The named rock units Cyathophyllidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 54 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyathophyllidae and its relatives
DevonianWhere Cyathophyllidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
1,166 taxa- Cyathophyllum77 sites
- Favosites48 sites
- Alveolites29 sites
- Syringopora26 sites
- Thamnopora19 sites
- Cladopora18 sites
- Crinoidea18 sites
- Stromatopora18 sites
- Disphyllum16 sites
- Atrypa reticularis15 sites
- Heliolites14 sites
- Tabulophyllum13 sites
- Gypidula12 sites
- Phillipsastrea12 sites
- Camarotoechia11 sites
- Gastropoda11 sites
- Thamnophyllum11 sites
- Bryozoa10 sites
- Halysites10 sites
- Hexagonaria10 sites
- Mictophyllum10 sites
- Temnophyllum10 sites
- Athyris9 sites
- Aulopora9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 126 sites for Cyathophyllidae, 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
78 references- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska21
- The Devonian of California13
- Middle Devonian rugose coral faunas in northeastern British Columbia and District of Mackenzie, western Canada12
- The distribution of rugose corals in Frasnian outcrop sequences of North America10
- Chostophyllum, a new genus of charactophyllid corals from the Middle Devonian of Western Canada6
- Paleoecology of upper Eifelian and lower Givetian coral limestones in the northwestern Sauerland (Devonian; Rhenish Massif)5
- Middle Devonian brachiopods from Celechovice, Moravia5
- Facies variations in the Devonian limestones of eastern South Devon5
- The Silurian fauna of the Sandpile Group of northern British Columbia5
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Silurian rocks of the Port Daniel-Black Cape Region, Gaspé5
- Stratigraphie und Systematik rugoser Korallen aus dem Givetium und Unter-Frasnium des Rheinischen Schiefergebirges (Sauerland/Bergisches Land) [Stratigraphy and systematics of rugose corals from the Givetian and Lower Frasnian of the Rheinisches Schiefergebirge (Sauerland/Bergisches Land)]4
- Silurian communities of the Oslo Region, Norway4
Each of the 195 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. 66 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 Cyathophyllidae
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cyathophyllidae 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 itCyathophyllina through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dana 1846