Houchangocyathus wangi
No picture of Houchangocyathus wangi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Houchangocyathus wangi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HouchangocyathusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Houchangocyathus
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Houchangocyathus
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Houchangocyathus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Houchangocyathus
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Houchangocyathus wangi on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
4 occurrences- Permian100%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Houchangocyathus wangi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Houchangocyathus wangi and its relatives
PermianWhere Houchangocyathus wangi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Houchangocyathus yaoi2 sites
- Tubiphytes2 sites
- Anthracoporella1 site
- Archaeolithoporella1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Colospongia cortexifera1 site
- Grossotubenella parallela1 site
- Guadalupia1 site
- Heterastridium1 site
- Heterocoenites1 site
- Intrasporeocoelia hubeiensis1 site
- Peronidella1 site
- Sollasia1 site
- Stylothalamia eleganta1 site
- Tebagathalamia cylindrica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Houchangocyathus wangi, 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 referenceEach of the 4 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Houchangocyathus wangi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Houchangocyathus wangi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Houchangocyathus wangi 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHouchangocyathus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ezaki 2000