Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaryophylliaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Caryophyllia
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 99 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 53 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 53 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 53 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 53 occurrencesOligocene — about 8 of 53 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 32 of 53 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 53 occurrencesPleistocene — about 4 of 53 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 7 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 3 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 9 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 11 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 4 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 10 occurrences100.5 Mya774 ka115 Mya0 Mya

53 occurrences of Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

53 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

8 formations

Termofourà — 45.07°N, 7.82°EPirabas — 1.03°S, 47.15°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.30°WPucangan — 7.23°S, 112.75°EKorytnica Clays — 50.67°N, 20.52°EUpper Kalibeng — 7.25°S, 110.67°ERembang — 6.97°S, 110.42°ESumagui — 12.78°N, 121.47°ETonohama — 33.43°N, 133.97°E

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The named rock units Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) and its relatives

Miocene

Where Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

721 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus), 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

28 references

Each of the 53 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. 16 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 Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) 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 Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) 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 itCaryophyllia through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848)