Thecocyathus mactra

No picture of Thecocyathus mactra 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 Thecocyathus mactra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThecocyathusPBDB
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 most 3.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 174.7 Mya and 170.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 7 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic175–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–173 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences173–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–172 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences172–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences171–171 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175.2 Mya170.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Thecocyathus mactra on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

1 formation

Opalinuston — 47.43°N, 8.15°EOpalinuston — 47.68°N, 8.52°E

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The named rock units Thecocyathus mactra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Thecocyathus mactra and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Thecocyathus mactra and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Thecocyathus mactra, 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 reference

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

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No picture of Thecocyathus mactra 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 Thecocyathus mactra, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Thecocyathus mactra 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 itThecocyathus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1826)