Cordilleracyathus
No picture of Cordilleracyathus 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 Cordilleracyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EthmophyllidaePBDB
- 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 most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 508.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Cordilleracyathus 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
22 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
6 formations
- Sekwi Formation · Atan Group9
- Puerto Blanco Formation4
- Rosella Formation · Atan Group2
- Sekwi Fm Formation1
- Leithsville Formation1
- Poleta Formation1
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The named rock units Cordilleracyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cordilleracyathus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Cordilleracyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Archaeocyathus arborensis4 sites
- Metaldetes4 sites
- Pycnoidocyathus4 sites
- Renalcis4 sites
- Archaeocyathus3 sites
- Claruscoscinus billingsi3 sites
- Coscinocyathus fritzi3 sites
- Dictyocyathus3 sites
- Paranacyathus3 sites
- Protopharetra3 sites
- Rotundocyathus3 sites
- Arrythmocricus2 sites
- Aulocricus2 sites
- Claruscoscinus2 sites
- Palmericyathus2 sites
- Palmericyathus lineatus2 sites
- Tabulaconus2 sites
- Ajacicyathus yukonensis1 site
- Coscinocyathus multiporus1 site
- Epiphyton1 site
- Erismacoscinus uniporus1 site
- Ethmophyllum whitneyi1 site
- Fenestrocyathus complexus1 site
- Gatagacyathus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Cordilleracyathus, 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
7 references- Fossils from the Lower Cambrian of the MacKenzie Mountains (Canada)5
- Archaeocyatha from the MacKenzie and Cassiar Mountains, Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory and British Columbia5
- 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]4
- Lower Cambrian bioconstructions in Northwestern Mexico (Sonora). Depositional setting, paleoecology and systematics of Archaeocyaths4
- Lower Cambrian archaeocyathid buildups, Pelly Mountains, Yukon2
- Cambrian reefs in the lower Poleta Formation: a new occurrence of a thick archaeocyathan reef near Gold Point, Nevada, USA1
- Early Cambrian Appalachian archaeocyaths: further age constraints from the fauna of New Jersey and Virginia, USA1
Each of the 22 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 Cordilleracyathus 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 Cordilleracyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cordilleracyathus 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 itEthmophyllidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handfield 1971