Placocyathus barretti
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlacocyathusPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Caryophylliidae
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 5.333 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 7.246 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
5 occurrences of Placocyathus barretti 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 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
5 formations
- Old Pera Formation1
- Bowden Formation1
- Tamiami Formation · Okeechobee Group1
- Old Bank Formation1
- Gurabo Formation1
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The named rock units Placocyathus barretti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Placocyathus barretti and its relatives
PlioceneWhere Placocyathus barretti and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.
Found in the same rock
65 taxa- Manicina3 sites
- Placocyathus variabilis3 sites
- Acropora cervicornis2 sites
- Antillia dentata2 sites
- Manicina areolata2 sites
- Manicina puntagordensis2 sites
- Meandrina brasiliensis2 sites
- Placocyathus alveolus2 sites
- Placocyathus costatus2 sites
- Porites astreoides2 sites
- Porites baracoaensis2 sites
- Stylophora granulata2 sites
- Stylophora monticulosa2 sites
- Thysanus excentricus2 sites
- Acropora1 site
- Acropora palmata1 site
- Agaricia1 site
- Agaricia agaricites1 site
- Agaricia dominicensis1 site
- Antillocyathus alatus1 site
- Asterosmilia1 site
- Atlanta (Atlanta) diamesa1 site
- Bowdenatheca jamaicensis1 site
- Caulastrea portoricensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Placocyathus barretti, 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
4 references- Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals of the Bowden shell bed, Southeast Jamaica2
- Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata1
- Petuch and Roberts, 20071
- A geological reconnaissance of the Dominican Republic1
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 Placocyathus barretti 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 Placocyathus barretti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Placocyathus barretti 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlacocyathus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1863)