Sakhacyathus
No picture of Sakhacyathus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Sakhacyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SakhacyathidaePBDB
- 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 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 525.5 Mya and 516 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Sakhacyathus 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
7 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Sakhacyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sakhacyathus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Sakhacyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Archaeolynthus3 sites
- Cambrocyathellus3 sites
- Dictyocyathus3 sites
- Nochoroicyathus3 sites
- Cryptoporocyathus2 sites
- Cysticyathus2 sites
- Dokidocyathus2 sites
- Erismacoscinus2 sites
- Okulitchicyathus2 sites
- Protospongiidae2 sites
- Renalcis2 sites
- Rotundocyathus2 sites
- Sclerocyathus2 sites
- Spinosocyathus2 sites
- Tumuliolynthus2 sites
- Alataucyathus jaroschevitschi1 site
- Archaeopharetra1 site
- Batinevia1 site
- Coscinocyathus1 site
- Epiphyton1 site
- Girvanella1 site
- Loculicyathus voznesenskii1 site
- Orbicyathus1 site
- Proaulopora1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Sakhacyathus, 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
2 references- Primordial metazoan-calcimicrobial reefs: Tommotian (Early Cambrian) of the Siberian Platform4
- Archaeocyathids from the Atdabanian (Lower Cambrian) of the Altay-Sayan Foldbelt, Russia3
Each of the 7 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 Sakhacyathus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Sakhacyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sakhacyathus 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 itSakhacyathidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.