Cycloseris sinensis
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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 most 5.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 5.333 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cycloseris sinensis on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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
2 occurrences- Pliocene50%
- Pleistocene50%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Cycloseris sinensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cycloseris sinensis and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Cycloseris sinensis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
198 taxa- Dipsastraea pallida2 sites
- Favites chinensis2 sites
- Galaxea fascicularis2 sites
- Hydnophora microconos2 sites
- Lithophyllon repanda2 sites
- Porites2 sites
- Porites cylindrica2 sites
- Acanthastrea1 site
- Acanthastrea echinata1 site
- Acanthastrea hillae1 site
- Acar plicata1 site
- Acropora horrida1 site
- Acropora muricata1 site
- Acropora pharaonis1 site
- Acropora salundensis1 site
- Alveopora verrilliana1 site
- Anadara (Anadara) antiquata1 site
- Arca1 site
- Arca imbricata arabica1 site
- Asaphis deflorata1 site
- Astreopora expansa1 site
- Astreopora myriophthalma1 site
- Australomussa rowleyensis1 site
- Barbatia (Barbatia) lacerata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cycloseris sinensis, 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
2 references- Pleistocene Reefs of the Red Sea Coast, Sudan: Depositional Environments, Fossil Coral, Age Dating and Diagenesis1
- Coral species stability in reef corals of Papua New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific1
Each of the 2 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 Cycloseris sinensis
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cycloseris sinensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCycloseris through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851