Cyathophyllum

Cyathophyllum

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
CyathophyllidaePBDB
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 183 million years on record.

The record covers at least 443.1 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 449.5 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Ordovician — about 1 of 113 occurrencesSilurian — about 50 of 113 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 54 of 113 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 113 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 7 of 113 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 113 occurrences453–447 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences447–440 Mya — about 6 occurrences440–433 Mya — about 13 occurrences433–426 Mya — about 19 occurrences426–419 Mya — about 12 occurrences419–412 Mya — about 2 occurrences412–406 Mya — about 3 occurrences406–399 Mya — about 3 occurrences399–392 Mya — about 5 occurrences392–385 Mya — about 24 occurrences385–378 Mya — about 13 occurrences378–371 Mya — about 2 occurrences371–364 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences364–358 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences358–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–337 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences337–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–289 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences289–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–262 Mya — about 4 occurrences262–255 Mya — about 2 occurrences255–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences443.1 Mya259.857 Mya453 Mya248 Mya

113 occurrences of Cyathophyllum on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

113 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

40 formations

Vaughn Gulch — 36.82°N, 118.08°WSteinsfjorden — 68.79°N, 14.95°ETorquay Limestone — 50.45°N, 3.50°WWadleigh Limestone — 55.49°N, 132.36°WWadleigh Limestone — 55.44°N, 133.11°WWadleigh Limestone — 55.46°N, 133.13°WHorn Plateau — 62.25°N, 119.25°WHorn Plateau — 62.17°N, 117.83°WHorn Plateau — 62.18°N, 117.53°WMcColley Canyon — 39.60°N, 116.27°WMcColley Canyon — 39.42°N, 116.03°WLa Vieille — 48.20°N, 64.80°WSultan — 35.87°N, 115.63°WSultan — 35.64°N, 115.64°WUkalunda — 20.00°S, 147.00°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.32°EGarra — 33.00°S, 149.00°ECedar Lake Dolomite — 51.00°N, 98.83°WCedar Lake Dolomite — 51.60°N, 98.70°WPortilla — 42.83°N, 1.57°EPortilla — 42.85°N, 5.48°WNewberria — 51.17°N, 7.97°ENewberria — 51.15°N, 7.92°EGascons — 47.91°N, 66.52°WOak Orchard — 43.21°N, 75.46°WAkron — 42.85°N, 78.80°WManitoba Limestone — 51.65°N, 99.82°WWabash — 40.42°N, 85.80°WDouglas Creek Limestone — 22.90°S, 147.63°EUpper Visby — 57.63°N, 18.30°EHamra Beds — 57.53°N, 18.43°EKoumengzi — 38.00°N, 102.00°EScotch Grove — 42.00°N, 92.00°W

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The named rock units Cyathophyllum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 37 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyathophyllum and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cyathophyllum and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

827 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Cyathophyllum, 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

47 references

Each of the 113 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. 35 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 content2

Picture of Cyathophyllum

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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. Goldfuss 1826