Cyathoseris

Cyathoseris

Dolin · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
AgariciidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 65 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 6 of 103 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 103 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 35 of 103 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 35 of 103 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 15 of 103 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 103 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 103 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 1 occurrence71–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–51 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 8 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 16 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 12 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 12 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 8 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 5 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 6 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences66 Mya129 ka85 Mya0 Mya

103 occurrences of Cyathoseris on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

103 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

29 formations

Castelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.55°N, 11.45°ECastelgomberto — 45.75°N, 11.50°ECastelgomberto — 45.42°N, 11.50°ECalvene — 45.77°N, 11.60°EGhasr Ghand — 26.50°N, 60.00°ENago Limestone — 45.89°N, 10.88°ENago Limestone — 46.05°N, 11.12°EEptachorion — 40.13°N, 21.14°EGatuncillo — 9.25°N, 79.63°WSalt Mountain Limestone — 31.43°N, 87.92°WCastro Limestone — 40.03°N, 18.45°ESabz — 27.32°N, 57.12°EDarkhunish — 26.53°N, 57.58°ETitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.33°N, 78.23°WPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°EUpper Kalibeng — 8.00°S, 114.00°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°ENabire — 3.60°S, 135.52°ESubmenilitic — 48.95°N, 16.77°EOcozocoautla — 16.80°N, 93.37°WMandrikovka — 48.45°N, 34.98°ESan Juan — 17.05°N, 92.72°WGornji Grad — 46.28°N, 14.25°E"Catadupa Beds" — 18.28°N, 77.88°WSon Sastre Sandstones and Lutites — 39.54°N, 2.97°ECardenas — 22.07°N, 100.98°WIgualada — 41.58°N, 1.70°E

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The named rock units Cyathoseris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 47 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyathoseris and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cyathoseris and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

601 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Cyathoseris, 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

44 references

Each of the 103 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. 32 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 Cyathoseris

Source
GBIF
Credit
Dolin
Licence
CC BY 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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849