Cyphosoma volanum

Cyphosoma volanum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhymosomaPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB, for Phymosomatoida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Phymosomatoida
Motility
slow-movingPBDB, for Phymosomatoida
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At most 78 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrenceLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 1 occurrence145–142 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences142–139 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences137–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–131 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences118–115 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145 Mya64 Mya

1 occurrence of Cyphosoma volanum on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

1 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

1 formation

Denison — 33.76°N, 96.54°W

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The named rock units Cyphosoma volanum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cyphosoma volanum and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Cyphosoma volanum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cyphosoma volanum, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Cyphosoma volanum

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 Cyphosoma volanum 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 itPhymosoma through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cragin 1893