Cyathus ulrichi

No picture of Cyathus ulrichi 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 Cyathus ulrichi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyathusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Palaeocopida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ostracoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Ostracoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ostracoda

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 312.8 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.6 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 8 occurrencesPermian319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 1 occurrence281–280 Mya — about 1 occurrence280–278 Mya — about 1 occurrence278–277 Mya — about 1 occurrence277–275 Mya — about 1 occurrence275–274 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences312.8 Mya283.3 Mya319.5 Mya273.5 Mya

8 occurrences of Cyathus ulrichi on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

8 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

3 formations

Chochal — 15.25°N, 90.21°WStanton — 39.08°N, 94.93°WMcCoy — 39.54°N, 106.39°W

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The named rock units Cyathus ulrichi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cyathus ulrichi and its relatives

Permian

Where Cyathus ulrichi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

95 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cyathus ulrichi, 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

Each of the 8 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 Cyathus ulrichi 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 Cyathus ulrichi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cyathus ulrichi 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 itCyathus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Roth 1930