Notocyathus

Notocyathus

Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012) · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/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
TurbinoliinaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 39.1 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 42.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 4 of 35 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 35 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 22 of 35 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 35 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 35 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 6 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 1 occurrence12–10 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–2.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.9–1.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences39.1 Mya129 ka43.5 Mya0 Mya

35 occurrences of Notocyathus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

35 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

11 formations

Wharekuri Greensand — 44.70°S, 170.43°EPakaurangi — 36.22°S, 174.28°EPakaurangi — 36.02°S, 173.99°EIsland Sandstone — 42.11°S, 171.54°ERembang — 6.97°S, 110.42°EKaiata Siltstone — 42.38°S, 171.25°EMuriwai — 36.82°S, 174.42°EMount Brown — 42.98°S, 172.68°ETutamoe — 40.13°S, 176.55°EMuddy Creek — 37.73°S, 141.92°ESumagui — 12.78°N, 121.47°EOtaua — 35.57°S, 173.42°E

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The named rock units Notocyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Notocyathus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Notocyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Notocyathus, 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

13 references

Each of the 35 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. 1 further reference is 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 Notocyathus

Credit
Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012)
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Notocyathus 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 itTurbinoliinae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tenison-Woods 1880