Pourtalocyathus hispidus

Pourtalocyathus hispidus

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
PourtalocyathusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Guyniidae
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Guyniidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Guyniidae

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 6 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 6 occurrencesPliocene24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.2–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–5.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences5.1–4.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.5–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–3.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11.63 Mya5.333 Mya23.5 Mya3.1 Mya

6 occurrences of Pourtalocyathus hispidus on record. 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

6 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

3 formations

Mao — 19.52°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.48°N, 71.08°WGurabo — 19.37°N, 70.76°WBaitoa — 19.37°N, 70.72°W

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The named rock units Pourtalocyathus hispidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pourtalocyathus hispidus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 6 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 Pourtalocyathus hispidus

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

No 3D scan of Pourtalocyathus hispidus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itPourtalocyathus through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pourtales 1878)