Paracycloseris

No picture of Paracycloseris 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 Paracycloseris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyclolitidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivore, photosymbioticPBDB, for Scleractinia
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunal, colonial, clonalPBDB, for Scleractinia
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 75 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 21 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 21 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 21 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 21 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–134 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences134–130 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences123–119 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–111 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences111–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 6 occurrences70–66 Mya — about 8 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences113.2 Mya37.71 Mya145 Mya32 Mya

21 occurrences of Paracycloseris on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

21 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

6 formations

Guinea Corn — 18.15°N, 77.37°WGuinea Corn — 18.16°N, 77.38°WTitanosarcolites Limestone — 18.33°N, 78.23°WOcozocoautla — 16.80°N, 93.37°W"Catadupa Beds" — 18.28°N, 77.88°WMal Paso — 18.48°N, 100.70°WTarbur — 29.20°N, 58.30°E

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The named rock units Paracycloseris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paracycloseris and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Paracycloseris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paracycloseris, 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

12 references

Each of the 21 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. 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 content0

No picture of Paracycloseris 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 Paracycloseris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Paracycloseris 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 itCyclolitidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wells 1934