Syringothyris cuspidata

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
- SyringothyrisPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Spiriferinida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 6.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 339.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 330.3 Mya.
13 occurrences of Syringothyris cuspidata on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
13 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
4 formations
- Syringothyris Limestone Formation6
- Black Rock Limestone Formation · Pembroke Limestone Group3
- Black Rock Formation2
- Um Bogma Formation1
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The named rock units Syringothyris cuspidata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Syringothyris cuspidata and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Syringothyris cuspidata and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
193 taxa- Chonetes7 sites
- Linoproductus cora6 sites
- Atylephorus tornacensis5 sites
- Camarotoechia5 sites
- Dictyoclostus5 sites
- Leptagonia analoga5 sites
- Rhipidomella michelini5 sites
- Cleiothyridina4 sites
- Fenestella4 sites
- Bellerophontoidea3 sites
- Dielasma3 sites
- Eomarginifera longispinus3 sites
- Fasciculophyllum3 sites
- Michelinia3 sites
- Orthidina3 sites
- Phillipsia3 sites
- Productus3 sites
- Pustula3 sites
- Schellwienella3 sites
- Schizophoria3 sites
- Spirifer3 sites
- Spiriferidina3 sites
- Syringopora3 sites
- Bellerophon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Syringothyris cuspidata, 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
4 references- The Anthracolithic faunae of Kashmir, Kanaur and Spiti6
- Geology of the Country around Wells and Cheddar (Explanation of One-inch Geological Sheet 280, New Series)5
- Carboniferous macrofauna from Sinai, Egypt: biostratigraphy and paleogeography1
- Paleoecology of the Carboniferous reef complex and shelf limestones in the northwest Derbyshire, England1
Each of the 13 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
Media content2

Picture of Syringothyris cuspidata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC0 Public Domain
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSyringothyris through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Martin 1796)