Cyathophylloides

Oskar josefsson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- CyathophylloididaePBDB
- 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 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 449.6 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 426.7 Mya.
21 occurrences of Cyathophylloides 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
21 occurrences- Ordovician90%
- Silurian10%
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
- Bardstown Formation3
- Benjamin Limestone Formation · Gordon Group2
- Drakes Formation2
- Georgian Bay Formation1
- Kabanka Formation1
- Ellis Bay Formation1
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The named rock units Cyathophylloides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyathophylloides and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cyathophylloides and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
126 taxa- Catenipora8 sites
- Calapoecia5 sites
- Beloitoceras4 sites
- Bryozoa4 sites
- Paleofavosites4 sites
- Trepostomata4 sites
- Clathrodictyon3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Favistina3 sites
- Foerstephyllum3 sites
- Grewingkia3 sites
- Palaeophyllum3 sites
- Platystrophia3 sites
- Propora3 sites
- Streptelasma divaricans3 sites
- Tollina3 sites
- Acidolites2 sites
- Agetolites2 sites
- Bighornia2 sites
- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Bucania2 sites
- Ecclimadictyon2 sites
- Eofletcheria2 sites
- Falsicatenipora2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Cyathophylloides, 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
13 references- Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian corals of Alaska5
- Gradient ecology of a biotic invasion: biofacies of the type Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician), Cincinnati, Ohio region, USA3
- Edrioasteroids on corals: Taphonomic feedback and sedimentary processescontrol the ecology of a Late Ordovician (Katian: Cincinnatian,Richmondian) community in central Kentucky, USA2
- Montoya and related colonial corals2
- Reefs during the multiple crises towards the Ordovician-Silurian boundary: Anticosti Island, eastern Canada, and worldwide1
- Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region1
- The base of the Silurian System in Tasmania1
- Clathrodictyid stromatoporoids from the Ordovician of China1
- Stratigraphic table of northwestern region of China: ShaanXi Province part1
- Paleoecological succession leading to a late Ordovician biostrome on Manitoulin Island, Ontario1
- Biogermnaya fatsiya v yuuruskom gorizonte (nizhniy llandoveri) v severo-zapadnoy Estonii [Biohermal facies in the Juuru stage (Lower Llandoverian) in NW Estonia]1
- Ordovician stratigraphy of the Florentine Synclinorium, southwest Tasmania1
Each of the 21 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. 1 further reference is 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 Cyathophylloides
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Oskar josefsson
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCyathophylloididae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dybowski 1873