Cycloseris cyclolites

Cycloseris cyclolites is a species of disc coral in the family Fungiidae. It was first described by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1815. It is native to the tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific region where it is found on soft sediment in shallow water.

Cycloseris cyclolites

Anne Hoggett · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
CycloserisPBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Cycloseris
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Cycloseris
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cycloseris
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Fungiidae

Time the record covers

At least 5.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 11.63 Mya to 0 Mya.

Miocene — about 1 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 8 of 18 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 8 of 18 occurrencesPleistoceneHolocene — about 1 of 18 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–9.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.3–8.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.9–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–8.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.1–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–6.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.1–5.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.7–5.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.3–4.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.9–4.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences4.0–3.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences3.6–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.2–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–2.0 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences2.0–1.6 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.6–1.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences1.2–809 ka Mya — about 0.7 occurrences809 ka–404 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences404 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.333 Mya11.7 ka12.1 Mya0 Mya

18 occurrences of Cycloseris cyclolites on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

18 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

8 formations

Riukiu Limestone — 28.33°N, 130.00°EEra Beds — 8.35°S, 146.28°EUpper Kalibeng — 8.00°S, 114.00°ESondé — 8.00°S, 114.00°EMiyako-jima — 24.50°N, 125.10°ESzukou — 22.00°N, 120.70°ENuma — 34.97°N, 139.83°EGelingseh — 1.07°N, 117.80°E

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The named rock units Cycloseris cyclolites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cycloseris cyclolites and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Cycloseris cyclolites and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

260 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Cycloseris cyclolites, 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

14 references

Each of the 18 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. 2 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 Cycloseris cyclolites

Credit
Anne Hoggett
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCycloseris through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lamarck 1801)