Paracyathus

Paracyathus

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
CaryophylliidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 111 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 12 of 111 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 45 of 111 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 111 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 28 of 111 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 14 of 111 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 111 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 6 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 3 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 12 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 18 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–20 Mya — about 1 occurrence20–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 11 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences72.2 Mya129 ka85 Mya0 Mya

111 occurrences of Paracyathus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

111 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

42 formations

Cook Mountain — 32.17°N, 88.83°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.16°WCook Mountain — 32.32°N, 89.03°WCook Mountain — 31.93°N, 92.64°WCook Mountain — 32.10°N, 88.86°WCayo Agua — 9.18°N, 82.05°WCayo Agua — 9.15°N, 82.03°WLisbon — 31.84°N, 88.25°WLisbon — 32.50°N, 93.03°WLisbon — 32.20°N, 92.82°WLisbon — 32.10°N, 88.85°WPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°ETermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EWills Point — 30.27°N, 97.73°WWills Point — 30.23°N, 97.52°WLondon Clay — 51.43°N, 2.00°WLondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°EBlakeley — 47.58°N, 122.52°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 30.18°N, 97.48°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.73°N, 118.33°WWeches — 30.67°N, 96.37°WKosciusko — 32.04°N, 88.73°WWoolwich and Reading — 51.52°N, 0.08°WUmm al-Rua’us — 26.43°N, 50.11°EBracklesham Beds — 50.92°N, 1.48°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WAuradu Limestone — 10.33°N, 45.05°EGoose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WRembang — 6.97°S, 110.42°ESicilian — 38.15°N, 15.65°ESitsayan — 21.10°N, 94.80°ELuza — 49.10°N, 31.97°EReklaw — 30.01°N, 97.26°WLa Quinta — 17.05°N, 92.43°W

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The named rock units Paracyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paracyathus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Paracyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,656 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Paracyathus, 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

49 references

Each of the 111 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. 37 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 Paracyathus

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

No 3D scan of Paracyathus 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. Edwards and Haime 1848