Tropidocyathus nudus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TropidocyathusPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Turbinoliidae
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Turbinoliidae
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Turbinoliidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
2 occurrences of Tropidocyathus nudus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Tropidocyathus nudus 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.
Tropidocyathus nudus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Tropidocyathus nudus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Acropora duncani1 site
- Anisocoenia crassisepta1 site
- Architectonica1 site
- Architectonica (Architectonica)1 site
- Astreopora hochstetteri1 site
- Balanophyllia complanata1 site
- Balanus amaryllis1 site
- Balanus amphitrite1 site
- Balanus tintinnabulum1 site
- Buccinum (Bullia) simplex1 site
- Buccinum junghuhni1 site
- Bufonaria elegans1 site
- Bulla (Scaphander) elegans1 site
- Cardita1 site
- Cardium verbeeki1 site
- Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) laterocristatus1 site
- Cassidaria javana1 site
- Cassis glaucoides1 site
- Cassis herklotsi1 site
- Columbella herklotsi1 site
- Columbella lacteoides1 site
- Conus affinis1 site
- Conus javanus1 site
- Conus parvulus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Tropidocyathus nudus, 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
2 references- Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Korallenfauna des Tertiärs von Java. I: Die Korallen des Eocen und des älteren Neogen [The Tertiary coral fauna of Java. I: Eocene and Lower Neogene corals]1
- Die Tertiärschichten auf Java. Nach den Entdecjungen von Fr. Junghuhn1
Each of the 2 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 content1
Picture of Tropidocyathus nudus
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Tropidocyathus nudus 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 itTropidocyathus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martin 1879