Cyathaxonia cornu

Cyathaxonia cornu

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyathaxoniaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Rugosa
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Rugosa
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Rugosa
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Rugosa

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 285.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 25 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 23 of 25 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 25 occurrencesPermian360–358 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences358–355 Mya — about 1 occurrence355–353 Mya — about 2 occurrences353–350 Mya — about 3 occurrences350–347 Mya — about 3 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 2 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–339 Mya — about 1 occurrence339–337 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 2 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 2 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 2 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences324–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences311–308 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences292–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–287 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences346.7 Mya285.8 Mya360 Mya282 Mya

25 occurrences of Cyathaxonia cornu on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

25 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

14 formations

Black Rock — 51.33°N, 2.74°WFeltrim — 53.43°N, 6.20°WFeltrim — 53.62°N, 6.92°WWeaver Beds — 52.80°N, 2.10°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WBlack Rock Limestone — 51.33°N, 2.74°WCracoe Limestone — 54.05°N, 2.02°WPicos de Europa — 43.32°N, 5.05°WMiddle Limestone Va Cyclothem — 54.30°N, 2.15°WFive Yard Limestone VI — 54.30°N, 2.15°WUnderset Limestone VIII — 54.30°N, 2.15°WTashly — 53.92°N, 56.58°EOrlovka — 65.78°N, 59.45°EIdmarrach — 33.44°N, 5.23°WHeshilafu — 37.29°N, 76.25°E

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The named rock units Cyathaxonia cornu has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyathaxonia cornu and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cyathaxonia cornu and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

254 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Cyathaxonia cornu, 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

15 references

Each of the 25 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. 3 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

Media content1

Picture of Cyathaxonia cornu

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iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Michelin 1846