Cycloseris costulata

Zarinah Waheed, Francesca Benzoni, Sancia E. T. van der Meij, Tullia Isotta Terraneo, Bert W. Hoeksema · CC BY 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
- CycloserisPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Cycloseris
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cycloseris
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cycloseris
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Fungiidae
Time the record covers
At least 15 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Cycloseris costulata on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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
6 occurrences- Miocene33%
- Pliocene17%
- Pleistocene50%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cycloseris costulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cycloseris costulata and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cycloseris costulata and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
245 taxa- Acanthocarpus obscurus1 site
- Acteonina1 site
- Albertella pirabensis1 site
- Amauropsis1 site
- Amusium papyraceum1 site
- Anadara1 site
- Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana1 site
- Ancilla1 site
- Ancilla (Sparella)1 site
- Anomia1 site
- Anomia ephippium1 site
- Antillophyllia constricta1 site
- Aphrocallistes estevoui1 site
- Aphrocallistes lobata1 site
- Architectonica nobilis1 site
- Arcinella1 site
- Arcinella arcinella1 site
- Arcinella yaquensis1 site
- Arenaeus1 site
- Arius1 site
- Asterosmilia compressa1 site
- Astraca sp.1 site
- Aturia1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cycloseris costulata, 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
6 references- Localidades fossiliferas da Formacao Pirabas (Mioceno Inferior)1
- Novos elementos da coralinofauna da formacao pirabas (miocene inferior), estado do para [Coralinofaune of the Pirabas Formation (Lower Miocene), State of Para: new Taxa]1
- Stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and model for the deposition of the Abdur Reef Limestone: context for an important archaeological site from the last interglacial on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea1
- Interstadial coral reef terraces and relative sea-level changes during marine oxygen isotope stages 3-4, Kikai Island, central Ryukyus, Japan1
- Ricerche eseguite negli anni 1941-1942 sopra i Coralli delle scogliere emerse di Massaua e Gibuti [Research done between 1941 and 1942 on emersed coral reefs of Massawa and Djibouti]1
- Corals from the Upper Kalibeng beds (Upper Pliocene) of Java1
Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Cycloseris costulata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Zarinah Waheed, Francesca Benzoni, Sancia E. T. van der Meij, Tullia Isotta Terraneo, Bert W. Hoeksema
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cycloseris costulata 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 itCycloseris through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ortmann 1889)