Acrocyathus proliferus
No picture of Acrocyathus proliferus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Acrocyathus proliferus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcrocyathusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Rugosa
Time the record covers
At most 60 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Acrocyathus proliferus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
4 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Gayle Shale Formation · Middle Limestone Group1
- Five Yard Limestone VI Formation · Middle Limestone Group1
- St. Louis Formation1
- Tuscumbia Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Acrocyathus proliferus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acrocyathus proliferus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Acrocyathus proliferus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Archaediscus2 sites
- Aulophyllum2 sites
- Aviculopecten2 sites
- Buxtonia2 sites
- Chonetes2 sites
- Cleiothyridina2 sites
- Clisiophyllum keyserlingi2 sites
- Dibunophyllum bipartitum bipartitum2 sites
- Dictyoclostus2 sites
- Endothyra bowmani2 sites
- Eomarginifera2 sites
- Gigantoproductus2 sites
- Lithostrotion junceum2 sites
- Overtonia fimbriata2 sites
- Actinoconchus planosulcatus1 site
- Actinopteria1 site
- Ammodiscus anceps1 site
- Angiospirifer bisulcatus1 site
- Athyris lamellosa1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Camarophoria crumena1 site
- Chaetetes1 site
- Composita1 site
- Conocardium inflatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Acrocyathus proliferus, 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
3 references- The Yoredale Series of Upper Wensleydale and adjacent parts of North-West Yorkshire2
- Phylogeny and macroevolution of a “dead clade walking”: a systematic revision of the Paragaricocrinidae (Crinoidea)1
- Contributions to the Paleontology of Northwest Georgia1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Acrocyathus proliferus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Acrocyathus proliferus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acrocyathus proliferus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAcrocyathus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall in Hall and Whitney 1858)