Paracyathus bastropensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParacyathusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Paracyathus
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Paracyathus
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Paracyathus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At most 6.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 59.24 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Paracyathus bastropensis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
- Wills Point Formation · Midway Group3
- Kincaid Formation · Midway Group2
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The named rock units Paracyathus bastropensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paracyathus bastropensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Paracyathus bastropensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Brachidontes1 site
- Cardium1 site
- Caryophyllia mediavia1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Exilia pergracilis1 site
- Flabellum1 site
- Jupiteria1 site
- Scleractinia1 site
- Venericardia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Paracyathus bastropensis, 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- The coral fauna of the Midway Eocene of Texas2
- The Midway Group of Texas2
- Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages1
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. 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 Paracyathus bastropensis 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 Paracyathus bastropensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paracyathus bastropensis 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.
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What may have been alongside itParacyathus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vaughan and Popenoe 1935