Deltocyathus australis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DeltocyathusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Deltocyathus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Deltocyathus
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Deltocyathus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Deltocyathus australis on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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 Deltocyathus australis 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.
Deltocyathus australis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Deltocyathus australis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Acropora duncani1 site
- Alveopora deningeri1 site
- Anisocoenia crassisepta1 site
- Astreopora hochstetteri1 site
- Balanophyllia complanata1 site
- Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) laterocristatus1 site
- Ceratocyathus curvatus1 site
- Ceratocyathus pressulus1 site
- Conotrochus1 site
- Deltocyathus tuberculatus1 site
- Diplhelia complanata1 site
- Diploastrea heliopora borneensis1 site
- Echinopora crassatina1 site
- Flabellum1 site
- Flabellum irregulare1 site
- Fungia fungites1 site
- Galaxea1 site
- Heterocyathus1 site
- Heteropsammia cochlea1 site
- Madrepora1 site
- Notocyathus viola1 site
- Odontocyathus radiatus1 site
- Pachyseris1 site
- Paracyathus procumbens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Deltocyathus australis, 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- Neue Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Korallenfauna des Tertiärs von Java. I: Die Korallen des Eocen und des älteren Neogen [The Tertiary coral fauna of Java. I: Eocene and Lower Neogene corals]1
- Die Anthozoenfauna des Jungtertiärs von Borneo [Anthozoa from the Upper Tertiary of Borneo]1
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 Deltocyathus australis
- 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 Deltocyathus australis 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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What may have been alongside itDeltocyathus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gerth 1921