Byronia

Searched as Byronia annulata. The Paleobiology Database treats Byronia as the accepted name.

Byronia is a genus of theca-bearing cnidarians with a close affinity to the coronatid scyphozoans.

No picture of Byronia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Byronia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HyolithelminthidaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Hyolithelminthida

Time the record covers

At least 2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 506.5 Mya to 504.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 514.5 Mya to 497 Mya.

Cambrian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCambrian515–514 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–507 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences507–506 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences506–506 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences506–505 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences505–505 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences505–504 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences504–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–503 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences503–502 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences502–501 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences501–501 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences501–500 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences500–500 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences500–499 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences499–498 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences498–498 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences498–497 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences497–497 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences506.5 Mya – 504.5 Mya515 Mya496.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Byronia 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

5 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

3 formations

Duchesnay — 51.10°N, 115.95°WDuchesnay — 50.63°N, 115.60°WBurgess Shale — 51.03°N, 115.83°WBurgess Shale — 51.38°N, 116.43°WBalang — 26.39°N, 107.69°E

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The named rock units Byronia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Byronia and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Byronia and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Byronia, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Byronia was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Byronia firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Byronia 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.