Pycnoidocyathus (Cambrocyathus)

Cambrocyathus Okulitch, 1937, a relative of Pycnoidocyathus (Cambrocyathus) — not Pycnoidocyathus (Cambrocyathus) itself

Not Pycnoidocyathus (Cambrocyathus). This is Cambrocyathus Okulitch, 1937, a relative — both are Metacyathidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PycnoidocyathusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Life habit
intermediate-level epifaunalPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Archaeocyatha
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 520 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 509.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesCambrian526–525 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences524–524 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences523–523 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences522–522 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences521–520 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences520–520 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences518–518 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences516–515 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences515–515 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521 Mya – 520 Mya526 Mya509.2 Mya

7 occurrences of Pycnoidocyathus (Cambrocyathus) on record, most of them in the Cambrian. 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

5 formations

Sekwi — 59.27°N, 129.18°WPoleta — 37.27°N, 118.15°WKrasnoporog — 67.14°N, 86.75°EPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 128.00°ECampito — 37.32°N, 118.18°W

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The named rock units Pycnoidocyathus (Cambrocyathus) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pycnoidocyathus (Cambrocyathus) and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Pycnoidocyathus (Cambrocyathus) and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

58 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pycnoidocyathus (Cambrocyathus), 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 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 Cambrocyathus Okulitch, 1937

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pycnoidocyathus (Cambrocyathus) 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 itPycnoidocyathus through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Okulitch 1937)