Deltocyathus whitei
No picture of Deltocyathus whitei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Deltocyathus whitei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Deltocyathus whitei on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
5 occurrencesThese 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Deltocyathus whitei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Deltocyathus whitei and its relatives
EoceneWhere Deltocyathus whitei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
94 taxa- Bathycyathus piveteaui3 sites
- Brachysphingus mammilatus2 sites
- Brachysphingus sinuatus2 sites
- Flabellum cuneiforme2 sites
- Glycymerita major2 sites
- Pleolobites erinaceus2 sites
- Venericardia (Pacificor) mulleri2 sites
- Acila (Truncacila) decisa1 site
- Amblypygus (Paramblypygus) houphoueti1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
- Brachidontes (Brachidontes) lawsoni1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Brachysphingus gibbosus1 site
- Calyptraea diegoana1 site
- Calyptraea mamillaris1 site
- Carcharias tingitana1 site
- Centrophorus1 site
- Circophyllia truncata1 site
- Colubraria1 site
- Columbarium1 site
- Crassatella1 site
- Crassatella compacta1 site
- Crassatella studleyi1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Deltocyathus whitei, 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- Études paléontologiques et géologiques sur le Falaises de Fresco (Côte d'Ivoire)3
- Age, Correlation and Possible Tethyan Affinities of Mollusks from the Lodo Formation of Fresno County, California1
- Pacific Coast Cretaceous and Tertiary corals1
Each of the 5 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 content0
No picture of Deltocyathus whitei was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Deltocyathus whitei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Deltocyathus whitei 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 itDeltocyathus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Durham 1943