Placocyathus costatus
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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 6.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 11.63 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
7 occurrences of Placocyathus costatus 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
7 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
6 formations
- Old Bank Formation2
- Old Pera Formation1
- Bowden Formation1
- Mao Adentro Formation1
- Gurabo Formation1
- Tamiami Formation1
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The named rock units Placocyathus costatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
107 taxa- Acropora cervicornis3 sites
- Manicina areolata3 sites
- Manicina puntagordensis3 sites
- Placocyathus alveolus3 sites
- Antillia dentata2 sites
- Manicina2 sites
- Meandrina2 sites
- Meandrina brasiliensis2 sites
- Placocyathus barretti2 sites
- Placocyathus variabilis2 sites
- Porites astreoides2 sites
- Porites baracoaensis2 sites
- Solenastrea bournoni2 sites
- Stylophora granulata2 sites
- Stylophora monticulosa2 sites
- Thysanus excentricus2 sites
- Trachyphyllia bilobata2 sites
- Acropora1 site
- Acropora palmata1 site
- Acrothoracica1 site
- Agaricia agaricites1 site
- Agassizia porifera1 site
- Arbacia1 site
- Argopecten1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Placocyathus costatus, 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- Neogene reef coral assemblages of the Bocas del Toro region, Panama: the rise of Acropora palmata2
- Zooxanthellate scleractinian corals of the Bowden shell bed, Southeast Jamaica2
- Expanded Florida reef development during the mid-Pliocene1
- Resource partitioning and paleoecology of Neogene free-living corals as determined from skeletal stable isotope composition1
- A geological reconnaissance of the Dominican Republic1
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 content0
No picture of Placocyathus costatus 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 Placocyathus costatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Placocyathus costatus 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 itPlacocyathus through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1864)