Cyathophora cesaredensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyathophoraPBDB
- Diet
- photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Cyathophoridae
- Life habit
- colonialPBDB, for Cyathophoridae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
4 occurrences of Cyathophora cesaredensis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
4 occurrences- Late Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cyathophora cesaredensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyathophora cesaredensis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Cyathophora cesaredensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
112 taxa- Axosmilia carrapateirensis3 sites
- Calamophylliopsis flabellum3 sites
- Microsolena agariciformis3 sites
- Axosmilia corallina2 sites
- Fungiastraea pseudarachnoides2 sites
- Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana2 sites
- Pleurosmilia crassa2 sites
- Praeexogyra2 sites
- Serpulidae2 sites
- Stylina2 sites
- Stylina girodi2 sites
- Thecosmilia trichotoma2 sites
- Acanthogyra columnaris1 site
- Actinaraea minuta1 site
- Actinastrea1 site
- Actinastrea matheyi1 site
- Actinastrea trochiformis1 site
- Actinostromaria tokadiensis1 site
- Adelocoenia hexaphyllia1 site
- Adelocoenia radisensis1 site
- Amphiastrea1 site
- Amphiastrea basaltiformis1 site
- Amphiastrea piriformis1 site
- Anomia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cyathophora cesaredensis, 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
3 references- Facies, stratigraphy and paleogeographic analysis of Upper? Kimmeridgian to Upper Portlandian sediments in the environs of Arruda dos Vinhos, Estremadura, Portugal2
- Palökologische und biofazielle Analyse des Kimmeridge (Oberjura) von Consolacao, Mittelportugal [Paleoecological and biofacies analysis of the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of Consolacao, central Portugal]1
- Die oberjurassische Korallenfazies von Algarve (Südportugal) [The Upper Jurassic coral facies of Algarve (Southern Portugal)]1
Each of the 4 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
Media content1
Picture of Cyathophora cesaredensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cyathophora cesaredensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Koby 1904