Guynia annulata

Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012) · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GuyniaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Guyniidae
- Life habit
- solitaryPBDB, for Guyniidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Guyniidae
Time the record covers
At least 3.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 3.6 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 5.333 Mya to 11.7 ka.
6 occurrences of Guynia annulata 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
6 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
4 formations
- Escudo de Veraguas Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
- Cayo Agua Formation · Bocas del Toro Group1
- Moin Formation · Limon Group1
- Gurabo Formation1
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The named rock units Guynia annulata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Guynia annulata and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Guynia annulata and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Americardia media1 site
- Amusium papyraceum1 site
- Antillocyathus alatus1 site
- Aphera islacolonis1 site
- Argopecten inaequalis1 site
- Argopecten thetidis1 site
- Argyrotheca johnsoni1 site
- Bifurcium1 site
- Cyclopecten guppyi1 site
- Cyclopecten zalaya1 site
- Diaphus aequalis1 site
- Diaphus dumerilii1 site
- Gurabopecten uniplicatus1 site
- Lindapecten paramuscosus1 site
- Marginella maoensis1 site
- Parvamussium1 site
- Pourtalocyathus hispidus1 site
- Spathochlamys vaginula1 site
- Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia) haitensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Guynia annulata, 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
4 references- A paleobiotic survey of Caribbean faunas from the Neogene of the Isthmus of Panama3
- Pleistocene to recent scleractinian deep-water corals and coral facies in the eastern Mediterranean1
- Last glacial deep-water corals from the Red Sea1
- Neogene paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic, 5. The suborders Caryophylliina and Dendrophylliina (Anthozoa, Scleractinia)1
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. 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
Media content1

Picture of Guynia annulata
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Cairns S, Kitahara M (2012)
- Licence
- CC BY 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Guynia annulata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itGuynia through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duncan 1872