Peponocyathus minimus

Peponocyathus minimus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PeponocyathusPBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Turbinoliidae
Life habit
solitaryPBDB, for Turbinoliidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Turbinoliidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 21.7 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 25.2 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Oligocene — about 1 of 7 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 7 occurrencesPleistocene26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.6–7.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.7–6.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.9–6.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.0–5.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.1–4.3 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences4.3–3.4 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences3.4–2.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences2.6–1.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.7–857 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences857 ka–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence21.7 Mya129 ka25.7 Mya0 Mya

7 occurrences of Peponocyathus minimus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

7 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

3 formations

Miaoli — 24.57°N, 120.80°EMiaoli — 24.70°N, 120.87°ETunghsiao — 24.57°N, 120.70°EPakaurangi — 36.02°S, 173.99°E

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The named rock units Peponocyathus minimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Peponocyathus minimus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Peponocyathus minimus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Peponocyathus minimus, 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

5 references

Each of the 7 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 Peponocyathus minimus

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No 3D scan of Peponocyathus minimus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Yabe and Eguchi 1937)