Taylorcyathus viai
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TaylorcyathusPBDB
- 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.
3 occurrences of Taylorcyathus viai 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
3 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
- Evol Formation · Canaveilles Group1
- Évol Formation1
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The named rock units Taylorcyathus viai 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.
Taylorcyathus viai and its relatives
CambrianWhere Taylorcyathus viai and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Anthomorpha2 sites
- Chancelloria2 sites
- Epiphyton2 sites
- Erismacoscinus2 sites
- Girvanella2 sites
- Nochoroicyathus2 sites
- Protopharetra2 sites
- Renalcis2 sites
- Afiacyathus oscillatus1 site
- Antoniocoscinus1 site
- Archaeopharetra1 site
- Coscinocyathus1 site
- Dictyocyathus1 site
- Dictyocyathus minorsignis1 site
- Dokidocyathus1 site
- Gloriosocyathus1 site
- Halysicyathus pirenaicus1 site
- Mennericyathus boadellensis1 site
- Nochoroicyathus salutensis1 site
- Porocoscinus1 site
- Rasetticyathus1 site
- Retecoscinus1 site
- Sekwicyathus polygonalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Taylorcyathus viai, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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
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No picture of Taylorcyathus viai 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 Taylorcyathus viai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Taylorcyathus viai 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 itTaylorcyathus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Perejon et al. 1994