Placocyathus variabilis

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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 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 54 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 54 occurrencesMiocene — about 16 of 54 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 20 of 54 occurrencesPleistocene — about 17 of 54 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence9.5–7.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.6–5.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 10 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 19 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences48.07 Mya2.58 Mya57 Mya0 Mya

54 occurrences of Placocyathus variabilis 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

54 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

13 formations

Moin — 9.97°N, 83.05°WMoin — 10.00°N, 83.03°WOld Bank — 9.32°N, 82.11°WCercado — 19.53°N, 71.18°WSeroe Domi — 12.13°N, 68.95°WQuebrada Chocolate — 9.98°N, 83.08°WOld Pera — 17.87°N, 76.28°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WHope Gate — 18.47°N, 77.40°WLas Cahobas — 18.54°N, 72.28°WTamiami — 26.14°N, 81.77°WMao Adentro — 19.52°N, 70.83°WGurabo — 19.50°N, 70.80°WGhazij — 30.13°N, 67.26°E

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The named rock units Placocyathus variabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Placocyathus variabilis and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Placocyathus variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

125 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Placocyathus variabilis, 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

10 references

Each of the 54 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 variabilis 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 variabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Placocyathus variabilis 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 timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duncan 1864)