Paracyathus vaughani

No picture of Paracyathus vaughani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 vaughani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPliocene — about 4 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 5 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–3.6 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences3.6–1.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences66 Mya3.6 Mya74 Mya1 Mya

5 occurrences of Paracyathus vaughani on record, most of them in the Pliocene. 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

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

5 formations

Goose Creek — 33.33°N, 80.15°WRaysor Marl — 33.10°N, 80.67°WNavesink — 39.73°N, 75.22°WJackson Bluff — 30.38°N, 84.63°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.43°W

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The named rock units Paracyathus vaughani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Paracyathus vaughani and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Paracyathus vaughani and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

144 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Paracyathus vaughani, 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

5 references

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

Media content0

No picture of Paracyathus vaughani was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 vaughani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Paracyathus vaughani 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 PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gane 1895