Heterocyathus

Heterocyathus is a genus of coral of the family Caryophylliidae.

Heterocyathus

Anne Hoggett · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
CaryophylliidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 106 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 110.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 49 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 49 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 49 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 49 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 49 occurrencesMiocene — about 6 of 49 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 18 of 49 occurrencesPleistocene — about 24 of 49 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences109–105 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences15–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–7.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.5–3.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences3.7–0 Mya — about 34 occurrences106.3 Mya129 ka112 Mya0 Mya

49 occurrences of Heterocyathus 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

49 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

10 formations

Miaoli — 24.57°N, 120.80°EMiaoli — 24.70°N, 120.87°ERembang — 6.70°S, 111.33°ERembang — 6.97°S, 110.42°ENakasi — 18.03°S, 178.52°ENias — 1.12°N, 97.62°ENias — 1.35°N, 97.25°ETunghsiao — 24.57°N, 120.70°EPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°EUpper Kalibeng — 8.00°S, 114.00°EMaanshan — 21.97°N, 120.76°ESumagui — 12.78°N, 121.47°ESanta Marta — 63.88°S, 57.99°W

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The named rock units Heterocyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heterocyathus and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Heterocyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

197 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Heterocyathus, 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

21 references

Each of the 49 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. 9 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 Heterocyathus

Credit
Anne Hoggett
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Heterocyathus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCaryophylliidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848