Degeletticyathus
Faure Muret, A. · 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
- EthmocyathidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
29 occurrences of Degeletticyathus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
29 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
5 formations
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The named rock units Degeletticyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Degeletticyathus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Degeletticyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
132 taxa- Archaeolynthus12 sites
- Nochoroicyathus12 sites
- Dokidocyathus11 sites
- Rotundocyathus11 sites
- Baikalocyathus10 sites
- Tumuliolynthus10 sites
- Tumulocyathus10 sites
- Cambrocyathellus9 sites
- Erismacoscinus9 sites
- Gordonicyathus9 sites
- Capsulocyathus8 sites
- Dictyocyathus8 sites
- Orbicyathus8 sites
- Sibirecyathus8 sites
- Archaeocyathina7 sites
- Formosocyathus7 sites
- Taylorcyathus7 sites
- Inessocyathus6 sites
- Loculicyathus6 sites
- Subtumulocyathellus6 sites
- Szecyathus6 sites
- Agyrekocyathus5 sites
- Ajacicyathida5 sites
- Alataucyathus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Degeletticyathus, 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
5 references- Stratigrafiya i arkheotsiaty nizhnego kembriya Altaye-Sayanskoy skladchatoy oblasti [Lower Cambrian stratigraphy and archaeocyatha of the Altay-Sayan fold belt]11
- Biostratigraphy of the Kiya River section. - Early Cambrian Archaeocyaths and spicular sponges from the Kiya River section (Kuznetsk Alatau)8
- Rannekembriyskiye fatsialnyye kompleksy arkheotsiat (r. Lena, sredneye techeniye) [Lower Cambrian archaeocyath complexes (middle Lena River)]5
- New archaeocyathids from the Lower Cambrian Vadi-Bala organogenic complex (Central Tuva)4
- Varlamov et al., 20081
Each of the 29 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 Degeletticyathus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Faure Muret, A.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Degeletticyathus 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 itEthmocyathidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.