Cycloseris vaughani
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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 5.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 11.7 ka.
5 occurrences of Cycloseris vaughani 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
5 occurrences- Miocene20%
- Pleistocene80%
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
- Boat Cove Formation · Herald Group1
- Dayrell Formation · Herald Group1
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The named rock units Cycloseris vaughani 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 vaughani and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Cycloseris vaughani and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
109 taxa- Acar plicata1 site
- Acropora pharaonis1 site
- Acropora salundensis1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arca imbricata arabica1 site
- Asaphis deflorata1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata1 site
- Barbatia (Ustularca) fusca1 site
- Bursa granularis1 site
- Cardita variegata1 site
- Cardium rugosum gortanii1 site
- Caulastrea connata1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Cerithium caeruleum1 site
- Cerithium erythraeonense1 site
- Cerithium rueppelli savignyi1 site
- Chama1 site
- Chlamys sanguinolenta1 site
- Circe pectinata1 site
- Clypeomorus inflata1 site
- Codakia tigerina1 site
- Coelastrea aspera1 site
- Conus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cycloseris vaughani, 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
4 references- Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pleistocene submarine volcanic-sedimentary sequences at the northern Kermadec Islands2
- Pleistocene Reefs of the Red Sea Coast, Sudan: Depositional Environments, Fossil Coral, Age Dating and Diagenesis1
- Facies, Fossil Record, and Age of Pleistocene Reefs from the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia)1
- Fossiles Néogénes et Quaternaires des Nouvelles-Hébrides1
Each of the 5 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 vaughani
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cycloseris vaughani 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Boschma 1923)