Cupitheca holocyclata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CupithecaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Hyolitha
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Hyolitha
Time the record covers
At least 700 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 516 Mya to 515.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 521 Mya to 509.7 Mya.
12 occurrences of Cupitheca holocyclata 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
12 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
5 formations
- Parara Limestone Formation5
- Bastion Formation4
- Cape Melville Formation1
- Forteau Formation · Labrador Group1
- Parara Formation1
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The named rock units Cupitheca holocyclata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cupitheca holocyclata and its relatives
CambrianWhere Cupitheca holocyclata and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
145 taxa- Pelagiella subangulata10 sites
- Pojetaia runnegari9 sites
- Chancelloria7 sites
- Echinodermata7 sites
- Hyolithellus micans7 sites
- Archiasterella6 sites
- Eiffelia araniformis6 sites
- Sinosachites6 sites
- Anabarella australis5 sites
- Cassitella baculata5 sites
- Conotheca australiensis5 sites
- Hippopharangites dailyi5 sites
- Hyolitha5 sites
- Hyptiotheca karraculum5 sites
- Lapworthella fasciculata5 sites
- <Clove-shaped>4 sites
- <Hexact>4 sites
- Aeitholicopalla adnata4 sites
- Albrunnicola4 sites
- Allonia tripodophora4 sites
- Archaeopetasus4 sites
- Australohalkieria parva4 sites
- Botsfordia caelata4 sites
- Brachiopoda4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Cupitheca holocyclata, 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- Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia6
- Hyoliths and small shelly fossils from the Lower Cambrian of North−East Greenland4
- Small shelly fossils from the argillaceous facies of the Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of western Newfoundland1
- Early Cambrian molluscs from glacial erratics of King George Island, West Antarctica1
Each of the 12 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cupitheca holocyclata 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 Cupitheca holocyclata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cupitheca holocyclata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCupitheca through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bengtson et al. 1990)