Fransuasaecyathus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FransuasaecyathidaePBDB
- 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 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 521 Mya and 508.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
39 occurrences of Fransuasaecyathus 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
39 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
7 formations
- Usa Formation23
- Pestrotsvet Formation7
- Salaany Gol Formation2
- Bazaikha Formation2
- Oi-Muran Reef Massif Formation2
- Dmitriyevskaya Formation1
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The named rock units Fransuasaecyathus 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.
Fransuasaecyathus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Fransuasaecyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
174 taxa- Archaeolynthus18 sites
- Nochoroicyathus17 sites
- Tumuliolynthus16 sites
- Dokidocyathus15 sites
- Capsulocyathus14 sites
- Cambrocyathellus12 sites
- Dictyocyathus12 sites
- Erismacoscinus12 sites
- Rotundocyathus12 sites
- Tumulocyathus12 sites
- Loculicyathus10 sites
- Sibirecyathus10 sites
- Taylorcyathus10 sites
- Szecyathus9 sites
- Agyrekocyathus8 sites
- Archaeocyathina8 sites
- Gordonicyathus8 sites
- Ladaecyathus8 sites
- Orbicyathus8 sites
- Baikalocyathus7 sites
- Inessocyathus7 sites
- Irinaecyathus7 sites
- Kaltatocyathus7 sites
- Paranacyathus7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Fransuasaecyathus, 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
7 references- Biostratigraphy of the Kiya River section. - Early Cambrian Archaeocyaths and spicular sponges from the Kiya River section (Kuznetsk Alatau)21
- Rannekembriyskiye fatsialnyye kompleksy arkheotsiat (r. Lena, sredneye techeniye) [Lower Cambrian archaeocyath complexes (middle Lena River)]7
- Stratigrafiya i arkheotsiaty nizhnego kembriya Altaye-Sayanskoy skladchatoy oblasti [Lower Cambrian stratigraphy and archaeocyatha of the Altay-Sayan fold belt]5
- Varlamov et al., 20083
- Early Cambrian bioconstruction in the Zavkhan Basin of western Mongolia1
- Early Cambrian bioconstructions in the Zavkhan Basin of western Mongolia1
- Biostratigrafiya i fauna kembriya Primorya [Cambrian biostratigraphy and fauna of Primorye]1
Each of the 39 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. 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
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No picture of Fransuasaecyathus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Fransuasaecyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFransuasaecyathidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.