Trochocyathus

Trochocyathus is a genus of corals in the family Caryophylliidae. Living species are found in waters near Hawai'i at depths of 64 to 1,020 meters. Fossil species are found as far back as the latest Paleocene in the Dilwyn Formation of Australia, in the late Cretaceous in the Woodbury Formation of New Jersey, and in Suffolk.

Trochocyathus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaryophylliidaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 363 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 363 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 5 of 363 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 10 of 363 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 37 of 363 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 78 of 363 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 43 of 363 occurrencesEocene — about 86 of 363 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 25 of 363 occurrencesMiocene — about 61 of 363 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 363 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 363 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences196–189 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences189–182 Mya — about 1 occurrence175–168 Mya — about 3 occurrences168–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–154 Mya — about 1 occurrence154–147 Mya — about 4 occurrences147–140 Mya — about 4 occurrences126–119 Mya — about 1 occurrence119–112 Mya — about 3 occurrences112–105 Mya — about 19 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 21 occurrences98–91 Mya — about 14 occurrences91–84 Mya — about 8 occurrences84–77 Mya — about 9 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 19 occurrences70–63 Mya — about 42 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 21 occurrences56–49 Mya — about 23 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 30 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 28 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 7 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 23 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 24 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 29 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 22 occurrences201.4 Mya129 ka210 Mya0 Mya

363 occurrences of Trochocyathus on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

363 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

98 formations

Llajas — 34.33°N, 118.71°WLlajas — 34.32°N, 118.65°WTermofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.96°N, 6.69°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.01°N, 6.35°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.10°N, 6.75°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.05°N, 6.52°EKincaid — 31.67°N, 96.47°WKincaid — 32.44°N, 96.23°WKincaid — 30.13°N, 97.47°WKincaid — 30.18°N, 97.48°WKincaid — 32.47°N, 96.15°WGurabo — 19.45°N, 70.70°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 71.18°WGurabo — 19.30°N, 71.67°WWills Point — 30.59°N, 97.30°WWills Point — 30.13°N, 97.47°WWills Point — 31.74°N, 96.55°WWills Point — 30.18°N, 97.48°WWills Point — 30.53°N, 97.25°WMancos Shale — 36.35°N, 109.82°WAmbarimaninga — 16.50°S, 46.00°ECapay — 39.20°N, 121.82°WCapay — 38.77°N, 122.20°WCapay — 38.54°N, 122.05°WDel Norte — 31.45°N, 106.55°WZongshan — 28.30°N, 88.53°EZongshan — 27.48°N, 88.90°EDakhla — 25.33°N, 30.58°EPierre Shale — 43.27°N, 104.27°WPierre Shale — 36.50°N, 104.90°WPierre Shale — 40.38°N, 107.20°WPorters Creek — 32.37°N, 88.04°WPorters Creek — 31.99°N, 87.29°WPorters Creek — 32.02°N, 87.43°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.53°WCrescent — 47.73°N, 122.85°WOiching — 47.92°N, 13.00°ERio Gurabo — 19.50°N, 71.17°WNeylandville Marl — 32.10°N, 96.47°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.94°N, 74.75°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.62°WFinlay — 31.45°N, 106.55°WRohatce — 50.07°N, 15.18°EQahlah — 24.28°N, 55.83°EClayton — 32.05°N, 86.78°W

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The named rock units Trochocyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 74 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 158 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Trochocyathus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Trochocyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,593 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 152 sites for Trochocyathus, 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

124 references

Each of the 363 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. 112 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Trochocyathus

Credit
Chillibilli
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Trochocyathus 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848