Irinaecyathus

Irinaecyathus

FYev · 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
SajanocyathidaePBDB
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 least 3.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 516 Mya to 512.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 508.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 80 of 80 occurrencesCambrian521–521 Mya — about 1 occurrence521–520 Mya — about 1 occurrence520–520 Mya — about 1 occurrence520–519 Mya — about 1 occurrence519–519 Mya — about 1 occurrence519–518 Mya — about 1 occurrence518–518 Mya — about 1 occurrence518–517 Mya — about 1 occurrence517–517 Mya — about 1 occurrence517–516 Mya — about 1 occurrence516–516 Mya — about 1 occurrence516–516 Mya — about 5 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 5 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 5 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 5 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 5 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 5 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 5 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 5 occurrences512–512 Mya — about 4 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 3 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 3 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 3 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 3 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 3 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 3 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 3 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 3 occurrences516 Mya512.1 Mya521.5 Mya507.7 Mya

80 occurrences of Irinaecyathus 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

80 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

17 formations

Usa — 56.00°N, 88.00°EUsa — 54.00°N, 90.75°EUsa — 54.23°N, 90.82°EIrbitey — 50.95°N, 92.83°EChekhan — 52.27°N, 89.00°EChekhan — 52.50°N, 89.33°EChekhan — 52.45°N, 89.10°EUpper Shangan — 51.40°N, 94.23°ETorgashino — 55.97°N, 92.92°EUyar — 54.60°N, 91.35°EUpper Monok — 52.83°N, 90.25°EUpper Monok — 52.27°N, 89.00°EUpper Monok — 52.83°N, 90.43°EKhamsarin — 52.85°N, 95.33°ESyys — 54.30°N, 90.75°EBayan Kol — 51.58°N, 93.60°EAkdurug — 51.72°N, 92.20°EIl'chir — 51.88°N, 94.42°EBerikul — 56.00°N, 88.00°EDedebulak — 40.40°N, 72.35°EBalakhtison — 53.77°N, 93.48°EBazaikha — 55.97°N, 92.92°EShashkunar — 52.43°N, 85.02°E

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The named rock units Irinaecyathus 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.

Irinaecyathus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Irinaecyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

179 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Irinaecyathus, 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

6 references

Each of the 80 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Irinaecyathus

Source
GBIF
Credit
FYev
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Irinaecyathus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.