Procyclolites

Procyclolites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProcyclolitinaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Procyclolitidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Procyclolitidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Procyclolitidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Procyclolitidae

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 192.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 184.2 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 28 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 26 of 28 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 28 occurrencesEarly Jurassic243–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 1 occurrence225–223 Mya — about 1 occurrence223–221 Mya — about 1 occurrence221–219 Mya — about 1 occurrence219–217 Mya — about 1 occurrence217–215 Mya — about 1 occurrence215–213 Mya — about 2 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 2 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 2 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 2 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 3 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 4 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 3 occurrences193–191 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences191–189 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences189–187 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences187–185 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237 Mya192.9 Mya243 Mya183 Mya

28 occurrences of Procyclolites on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

28 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

12 formations

Dachstein — 47.45°N, 13.07°EDachstein — 47.50°N, 13.50°EDachstein — 47.63°N, 13.17°EZlambach — 47.62°N, 13.73°EZlambach — 47.50°N, 13.50°EZlambach — 47.55°N, 13.65°EZlambach — 47.75°N, 13.50°EAksala — 61.07°N, 134.88°WShaimak — 37.50°N, 74.50°EKoguchi — 32.29°N, 130.60°EMartin Bridge — 44.97°N, 117.23°WBianyang — 25.73°N, 106.57°EKuta — 6.03°S, 144.84°ENayband — 34.06°N, 58.08°EBortepa — 37.33°N, 75.00°EQuagasi — 31.81°N, 98.58°EBaijizu — 26.43°N, 99.41°E

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The named rock units Procyclolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Procyclolites and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Procyclolites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

399 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Procyclolites, 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

21 references

Each of the 28 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. 9 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 Procyclolites

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Procyclolites 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 itProcyclolitinae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frech 1890