Procyathophora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StylinidaePBDB
Diet
photosymbiotic, suspension feederPBDB, for Stylinidae
Life habit
colonial, clonalPBDB, for Stylinidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Scleractinia
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 122 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 121.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 119.57 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 6 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous250–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–241 Mya — about 4 occurrences241–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence243.43 Mya121.4 Mya250 Mya117 Mya

6 occurrences of Procyathophora on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

6 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

Qingyan — 26.33°N, 106.68°EZhuganpo — 25.38°N, 105.71°Ebrachiopod-limestone — 45.70°N, 11.22°E

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The named rock units Procyathophora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Procyathophora and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Procyathophora and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

107 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Procyathophora, 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 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Procyathophora 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 Procyathophora, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Procyathophora 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 itStylinidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Weissermel 1928