Trochocyathus speciosus
No picture of Trochocyathus speciosus 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 Trochocyathus speciosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrochocyathusPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Trochocyathus
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trochocyathus
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Trochocyathus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 33 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 39.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 36.7 Mya.
17 occurrences of Trochocyathus speciosus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
17 occurrences- Late Cretaceous29%
- Paleocene59%
- Eocene12%
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
- Dakhla Formation4
- Chaaldzhin Formation2
- Oiching Formation1
- Tanque Formation · Difunta Group1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Trochocyathus speciosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trochocyathus speciosus and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Trochocyathus speciosus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
75 taxa- Palaeopsammia zitteli5 sites
- Caryophyllia konincki4 sites
- Smilotrochus milneri3 sites
- Parasmilia2 sites
- Trochocyathus mitratus2 sites
- Acanthocardia becksii1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Aulosmilia aspera1 site
- Avellana1 site
- Axinus cretaceus1 site
- Balanophyllia caulifera1 site
- Balanophyllia cf. ponderosa texana1 site
- Bathycyathus lloydi1 site
- Caryophyllia1 site
- Caryophyllia mediavia1 site
- Caryosmilia granosa1 site
- Ceratotrochus supracretacea1 site
- Cerithium1 site
- Cerithium abietiforme1 site
- Charonia1 site
- Cidaris1 site
- Cimomia desertora1 site
- Coelopleurus1 site
- Crassatella rothii1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Trochocyathus speciosus, 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
12 references- Contribution to the coral fauna of the Maastrichtian-Paleocene "paper shales" and "snow-white chalk" of the oasis of the south-western desert of Egypt3
- Kuzmicheva, 19872
- Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar [Monograph of fossil corals from Madagascar]2
- The Cretaceous and Tertiary corals of New Zealand2
- Corals of the KT-boundary: Scleractinian corals of the suborders Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina1
- Scleractinian corals from the Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary of Nugssuaq, West Greenland1
- Koralowce okolic Sochaczewa z warstw z Crania tuberculata [Corals from Sochaczew from the Crania tuberculata Beds]1
- Upper Cretaceous corals from Cuba1
- Geologische und paläontologische Bearbeitung der Kreide und des Tertiärs im östlichen Rupertiwinkel, nördlich von Salzburg [Geological and paleontological work on the Cretaceous and Tertiary of the eastern Ruperti region, north of Salzburg]1
- Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States1
- Die Fauna der Overwegischichten und der Blätterthone in der libyschen Wüste [The fauna of the Overwegi and Blätterthone Beds in the Libyan Desert]1
- Die Fauna der obersten weissen Kreide der libyschen Wüste [Uppermost White Cretaceous of the Libyan Desert]1
Each of the 17 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 content0
No picture of Trochocyathus speciosus 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 Trochocyathus speciosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trochocyathus speciosus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTrochocyathus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gabb and Horn 1860)