Archaeocyathina
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaeocyathidaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At least 11 million years on record.
The record covers at least 521 Mya to 509.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 538.8 Mya to 505.3 Mya.
752 occurrences of Archaeocyathina on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
752 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
75 formations
- Usa Formation95
- Pestrotsvet Formation56
- Amouslek Formation46
- Puerto Blanco Formation · Fallotaspis Group32
- Sekwi Formation · Atan Group29
- Upper Shangan Formation25
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The named rock units Archaeocyathina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 51 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Archaeocyathina and its relatives
CambrianWhere Archaeocyathina and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
630 taxa- Dictyocyathus64 sites
- Archaeolynthus53 sites
- Nochoroicyathus53 sites
- Cambrocyathellus39 sites
- Dokidocyathus36 sites
- Erismacoscinus35 sites
- Renalcis33 sites
- Protopharetra32 sites
- Rotundocyathus32 sites
- Tumuliolynthus32 sites
- Archaeocyathus28 sites
- Tumulocyathus28 sites
- Coscinocyathus27 sites
- Paranacyathus25 sites
- Ajacicyathus24 sites
- Capsulocyathus23 sites
- Epiphyton22 sites
- Okulitchicyathus20 sites
- Sibirecyathus20 sites
- Girvanella17 sites
- Irinaecyathus17 sites
- Loculicyathus17 sites
- Orbicyathus16 sites
- Szecyathus16 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 132 sites for Archaeocyathina, 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
75 references- Stratigrafiya i arkheotsiaty nizhnego kembriya Altaye-Sayanskoy skladchatoy oblasti [Lower Cambrian stratigraphy and archaeocyatha of the Altay-Sayan fold belt]160
- Biostratigraphy of the Kiya River section. - Early Cambrian Archaeocyaths and spicular sponges from the Kiya River section (Kuznetsk Alatau)77
- Archaeocyaths of the Lower Cambrian of Morocco49
- Archaeocyatha from lower parts of the Lower Cambrian carbonate sequence in South Australia36
- Rannekembriyskiye fatsialnyye kompleksy arkheotsiat (r. Lena, sredneye techeniye) [Lower Cambrian archaeocyath complexes (middle Lena River)]33
- Lower Cambrian bioconstructions in Northwestern Mexico (Sonora). Depositional setting, paleoecology and systematics of Archaeocyaths32
- Archaeocyathids from the Atdabanian (Lower Cambrian) of the Altay-Sayan Foldbelt, Russia25
- Calcaires a archaeocyathes du Cambrien inferieur du nord de la Colombie Britannique (Canada), implications paleogeographiques et precisions sur l'extension du continent Americano-Koryakien [Lower Cambrian archaeocyath limestones of northern British Columbia (Canada), paleogeographic implications and precisions on the Americano-Koryakian continent extension]19
- Fossils from the Lower Cambrian of the MacKenzie Mountains (Canada)16
- Archaeocyatha from the MacKenzie and Cassiar Mountains, Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory and British Columbia16
- Analyse sedimentologique et paleontologie de calcaires organogenes du Cambrien inferieur de Battle Mountain (Nevada, USA) [Sedimentology and paleontology of the Lower Cambrian organogenic limestones from Battle Mountain (Nevada, USA)]15
- Tommotskiu jarus i problema nizhney granisty kembriya [The Tommotian Stage and the Cambrian lower Boundary problem]14
Each of the 752 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. 63 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
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No picture of Archaeocyathina was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Archaeocyathina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itArchaeocyathida through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Okulitch 1935