Cyathophyllina

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StauriidaPBDB
- 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 471.3 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
783 occurrences of Cyathophyllina 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
783 occurrences- Ordovicianunder 1%
- Silurian19%
- Devonian69%
- Carboniferous7%
- Permian4%
- Early Triassicunder 1%
- Middle Triassicunder 1%
- Late Triassicunder 1%
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
205 formations
- Ludlowville Formation · Hamilton Group59
- Onondaga Formation57
- Silica Formation · Traverse Group28
- Jeffersonville Limestone Formation24
- Skaneateles Formation · Hamilton Group24
- Vaughn Gulch Formation21
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The named rock units Cyathophyllina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 181 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 139 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyathophyllina and its relatives
DevonianWhere Cyathophyllina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
1,848 taxa- Favosites113 sites
- Crinoidea55 sites
- Bryozoa47 sites
- Cystiphylloides47 sites
- Rhipidomella47 sites
- Heliophyllum halli46 sites
- Zaphrenthis43 sites
- Thamnopora42 sites
- Heterophrentis41 sites
- Fenestella40 sites
- Aulocystis38 sites
- Heliophyllum38 sites
- Platyceras37 sites
- Alveolites35 sites
- Camarotoechia33 sites
- Douvillina33 sites
- Eldredgeops rana33 sites
- Eridophyllum33 sites
- Cladopora32 sites
- Heliolites30 sites
- Atrypa reticularis29 sites
- Cyathophyllum29 sites
- Mucrospirifer mucronatus29 sites
- Platyostoma lineata29 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 481 sites for Cyathophyllina, and this reads 240 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
203 references- Geology and mineral deposits of southeastern Alaska49
- Stratigraphic distribution of Givetian and Upper Devonian rugose corals in central Kazakhstan31
- Silurian and Devonian Corals of the Falls of the Ohio31
- Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Jaycox Shale Member, Hamilton Group of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State29
- The LeRoy Bioherm: Onondaga Limestone (Middle Devonian) western New York28
- Stratigraphy of the Onondaga Limestone in Central New York22
- The Clinton of Western and Central New York22
- The Devonian of California21
- Strata and megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation20
- Faunal and Lithologic Cyclicity in the Centerfield Member (Middle Devonian: Hamilton Group) of Western New York: A Reinterpretation of Depositional History19
- Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis18
- Redefinition, Stratigraphy and Depostional Environments of the Mottville Member (Hamilton Group) in Central and Eastern New York17
Each of the 783 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. 191 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 Cyathophyllina
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cyathophyllina 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 itStauriida through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nicholson 1889