Clathricoscinus
Zhi-Wen, Jiang · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClathricoscinidaePBDB
- 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 3.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 516 Mya to 512.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 508.2 Mya.
57 occurrences of Clathricoscinus 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
57 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
11 formations
- Usa Formation24
- Upper Monok Formation15
- Upper Shangan Formation8
- Chekhan Formation2
- Dmitriyevskaya Formation1
- Pestrotsvet Formation1
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The named rock units Clathricoscinus 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.
Clathricoscinus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Clathricoscinus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
110 taxa- Archaeolynthus7 sites
- Capsulocyathus7 sites
- Dokidocyathus6 sites
- Tumuliolynthus6 sites
- Dictyocyathus5 sites
- Erismacoscinus5 sites
- Irinaecyathus5 sites
- Ladaecyathus5 sites
- Nochoroicyathus5 sites
- Sibirecyathus5 sites
- Szecyathus5 sites
- Taylorcyathus5 sites
- Tumulocyathus5 sites
- Ajacicyathida4 sites
- Archaeocyathina4 sites
- Fransuasaecyathus4 sites
- Gordonicyathus4 sites
- Loculicyathus4 sites
- Morenicyathus4 sites
- Tercyathus4 sites
- Tumulifungia4 sites
- Annulocyathella3 sites
- Archaeocyathus3 sites
- Baikalocyathus3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Clathricoscinus, 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
6 references- Stratigrafiya i arkheotsiaty nizhnego kembriya Altaye-Sayanskoy skladchatoy oblasti [Lower Cambrian stratigraphy and archaeocyatha of the Altay-Sayan fold belt]42
- Biostratigraphy of the Kiya River section. - Early Cambrian Archaeocyaths and spicular sponges from the Kiya River section (Kuznetsk Alatau)10
- Rannekembriyskiye fatsialnyye kompleksy arkheotsiat (r. Lena, sredneye techeniye) [Lower Cambrian archaeocyath complexes (middle Lena River)]2
- Early Cambrian microbial reefs, archaeocyathan inter-reef communities, and associated facies of the Yangtze Platform1
- Dedebulakskaya biogermnaya gryada i istoriya yeye razvitiya [The Dedebulak bioherm belt and the history of its development]1
- Biostratigrafiya i fauna kembriya Primorya [Cambrian biostratigraphy and fauna of Primorye]1
Each of the 57 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 Clathricoscinus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Zhi-Wen, Jiang
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Clathricoscinus 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 itClathricoscinidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.