Stephanocyathus (Acinocyathus) spiniger

Stephanocyathus (Acinocyathus) spiniger

MNHN - conv. APA_NCPS_385-2024/ARR/DDDT · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
Stephanocyathus (Acinocyathus)PBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 39.1 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 42.6 Mya to 129 ka.

Eocene — about 3 of 7 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 7 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–8.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.7–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.2–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–4.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences4.3–2.9 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.9–1.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.4–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence39.1 Mya774 ka43.4 Mya0 Mya

7 occurrences of Stephanocyathus (Acinocyathus) spiniger on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

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

Tapui Glauconitic Sandstone — 44.79°S, 170.90°EMaanshan — 21.97°N, 120.76°E

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The named rock units Stephanocyathus (Acinocyathus) spiniger has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stephanocyathus (Acinocyathus) spiniger and its relatives

Eocene

Where Stephanocyathus (Acinocyathus) spiniger and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Stephanocyathus (Acinocyathus) spiniger, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

5 references

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Stephanocyathus (Acinocyathus) spiniger

Source
GBIF
Credit
MNHN - conv. APA_NCPS_385-2024/ARR/DDDT
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stephanocyathus (Acinocyathus) spiniger was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itStephanocyathus (Acinocyathus) through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Marenzeller 1888)