Pycnoidocyathus strictus
No picture of Pycnoidocyathus strictus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Pycnoidocyathus strictus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PycnoidocyathusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pycnoidocyathus strictus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
2 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pycnoidocyathus strictus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pycnoidocyathus strictus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Pycnoidocyathus strictus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Pycnoidocyathus strictus, so there is nothing to compare it with.
Entered from
2 references- The oldest tabulate coral and the associated Archaeocyatha, Lower Cambrian, Flinders Ranges, South Australia1
- Archaeocyatha from lower parts of the Lower Cambrian carbonate sequence in South Australia1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Pycnoidocyathus strictus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Pycnoidocyathus strictus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPycnoidocyathus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gravestock 1984