Microcyathus
No picture of Microcyathus 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 Microcyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PalaeacidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feeder, photosymbioticPBDB, for Tabulata
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Tabulata
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tabulata
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Time the record covers
At least 91 million years on record.
The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 365.2 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
3 occurrences of Microcyathus on record. 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
3 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Microcyathus 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.
Found in the same rock
127 taxa- Ambocoelia2 sites
- Chonetes2 sites
- Conopoterium2 sites
- Cornulites2 sites
- Cyrtina2 sites
- Delthyris2 sites
- Leioclema2 sites
- Leptalosia scintilla2 sites
- Neozaphrentis2 sites
- Nucleospira2 sites
- Orbinaria pyxidata2 sites
- Philhedra rowleyi2 sites
- Ptyctodus calceolus2 sites
- Spirifer2 sites
- Spirorbis2 sites
- Streblotrypa2 sites
- Tabulipora2 sites
- ? Rhopalonaria sp.1 site
- Acanthocrania spiculata1 site
- Aganides1 site
- Allagecrinus1 site
- Allorhynchus1 site
- Araeopora ramosa1 site
- Archaeogastropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Microcyathus, 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- Stratigraphy and fauna of the Louisiana Limestone of Missouri2
- Monographie paleontologique des affleurements permiens du Djebel Tebaga (Sud Tunisien)1
Each of the 3 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 Microcyathus 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 Microcyathus, 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 itPalaeacidae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hinde 1896