Fenestrocyathus
No picture of Fenestrocyathus 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 Fenestrocyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClaruscoscinidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Life habit
- intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Porifera
Time the record covers
At most 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 538.8 Mya and 512.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Fenestrocyathus on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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
6 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
2 formations
- Sekwi Fm Formation1
- Rosella Formation · Atan Group1
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The named rock units Fenestrocyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fenestrocyathus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Fenestrocyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Brachiopoda2 sites
- Echinodermata2 sites
- Ethmophyllum2 sites
- Girvanella2 sites
- Holmiella2 sites
- Nevadella2 sites
- Spygoria zappania2 sites
- Zonacyathus2 sites
- Cordilleracyathus blussoni1 site
- Gordonicyathus dorfi1 site
- Propriolynthus vologdini1 site
- Sekwicyathus nahanniensis1 site
- Tabulaconus1 site
- Zonacyathus borealis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Fenestrocyathus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Calcaires a archaeocyathes du Cambrien inferieur du nord de la Colombie Britannique (Canada), implications paleogeographiques et precisions sur l'extension du continent Americano-Koryakien [Lower Cambrian archaeocyath limestones of northern British Columbia (Canada), paleogeographic implications and precisions on the Americano-Koryakian continent extension]3
- Spygoria zappania new genus and species, a Cloudina-like biohermal metazoan from the Lower Cambrian of central Nevada2
- Archaeocyatha from the MacKenzie and Cassiar Mountains, Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory and British Columbia1
Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Fenestrocyathus 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 Fenestrocyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fenestrocyathus 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 itClaruscoscinidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Handfield 1971