Scyphozoa

The Scyphozoa are an exclusively marine class of the phylum Cnidaria, referred to as the true jellyfish.

Scyphozoa

Derek Keats · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
Also called
jellyfishPBDB
Sits inside
MedusozoaPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 526 million years on record.

The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 12.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Cambrian — about 589 of 1195 occurrencesOrdovician — about 201 of 1195 occurrencesSilurian — about 79 of 1195 occurrencesDevonian — about 90 of 1195 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 89 of 1195 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 99 of 1195 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 1195 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 3 of 1195 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 13 of 1195 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1195 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1195 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1195 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 1195 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 1195 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 1195 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 1195 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 1195 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 1195 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 1195 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 1195 occurrences647–626 Mya — about 3 occurrences626–604 Mya — about 7 occurrences604–583 Mya — about 7 occurrences583–561 Mya — about 7 occurrences561–540 Mya — about 7 occurrences540–518 Mya — about 537 occurrences518–496 Mya — about 53 occurrences496–475 Mya — about 13 occurrences475–453 Mya — about 91 occurrences453–432 Mya — about 132 occurrences432–410 Mya — about 61 occurrences410–388 Mya — about 46 occurrences388–367 Mya — about 20 occurrences367–345 Mya — about 13 occurrences345–324 Mya — about 23 occurrences324–302 Mya — about 44 occurrences302–281 Mya — about 52 occurrences281–259 Mya — about 36 occurrences259–237 Mya — about 30 occurrences237–216 Mya — about 7 occurrences216–194 Mya — about 6 occurrences22–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence538.8 Mya12.8 Mya647 Mya0 Mya

1,195 occurrences of Scyphozoa on record, most of them in the Cambrian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

1,195 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

319 formations

Dengying — 33.50°N, 106.00°EDengying — 30.77°N, 111.32°EDengying — 32.98°N, 106.27°EDengying — 32.50°N, 107.00°EDengying — 25.48°N, 103.03°EDengying — 26.63°N, 105.85°EDengying — 28.27°N, 106.30°EDengying — 32.35°N, 106.82°EDengying — 28.27°N, 103.40°EDengying — 30.73°N, 111.13°EDengying — 30.77°N, 111.12°EDengying — 32.97°N, 106.25°EDengying — 25.52°N, 103.07°EDengying — 24.72°N, 102.56°EPestrotsvet — 57.67°N, 131.83°EPestrotsvet — 57.17°N, 132.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.70°N, 124.72°EPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 128.00°EPestrotsvet — 58.75°N, 127.00°EPestrotsvet — 60.83°N, 125.33°EPestrotsvet — 66.40°N, 112.28°EPestrotsvet — 71.83°N, 107.00°EPestrotsvet — 71.50°N, 105.00°EPestrotsvet — 57.40°N, 132.73°EPestrotsvet — 61.29°N, 135.50°EKuanchuanpu — 33.00°N, 106.17°EKuanchuanpu — 32.50°N, 106.92°EKuanchuanpu — 32.94°N, 106.23°EKuanchuanpu — 32.94°N, 107.70°EKuanchuanpu — 32.97°N, 106.25°EUst-Yudoma — 57.25°N, 131.20°EUst-Yudoma — 57.67°N, 131.83°EUst-Yudoma — 57.17°N, 132.00°EZhujiaqing — 24.67°N, 102.65°EZhujiaqing — 26.28°N, 103.22°EMedvezhyn — 71.00°N, 102.00°EMedvezhyn — 70.64°N, 103.43°EYanjiahe — 30.73°N, 111.08°EYanjiahe — 30.73°N, 111.03°EYanjiahe — 30.78°N, 111.35°EMaidiping — 29.53°N, 103.39°EMedvezhin — 70.50°N, 103.40°EMedvezhin — 70.67°N, 103.00°EGraham — 32.73°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.26°N, 98.12°WGraham — 33.24°N, 98.08°WGraham — 33.17°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.13°N, 98.16°WGraham — 33.10°N, 98.40°WGraham — 33.12°N, 98.30°WGraham — 33.00°N, 98.54°WMedvezhya — 71.33°N, 99.50°EMedvezhya — 70.14°N, 114.00°EEmyaksin — 62.00°N, 129.67°EEmyaksin — 70.72°N, 112.88°EEmyaksin — 70.72°N, 112.76°EKessyusa — 72.09°N, 124.59°EKessyusa — 70.96°N, 122.34°EKessyusa — 71.33°N, 123.97°EYudoma — 59.47°N, 135.80°EYudoma — 57.40°N, 132.73°EYudoma — 58.37°N, 133.17°EOlive Series — 32.70°N, 72.96°EOlive Series — 32.80°N, 73.09°EHuangshandong — 30.83°N, 111.17°EHuangshandong — 30.77°N, 111.13°EManykay — 70.57°N, 103.57°EManykay — 70.50°N, 103.40°EManykay — 70.67°N, 103.00°EManykay — 70.72°N, 112.76°ESoltanieh — 36.00°N, 51.50°ESoltanieh — 35.67°N, 51.42°EZahorany — 50.00°N, 14.00°EGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EGydo — 33.52°S, 24.74°EGydo — 32.64°S, 19.41°EGydo — 33.31°S, 22.43°EGydo — 34.01°S, 23.46°EPonta Grossa — 24.25°S, 49.70°WPonta Grossa — 26.07°S, 52.58°WPonta Grossa — 25.08°S, 50.15°WPonta Grossa — 24.50°S, 50.40°WParara Limestone — 34.92°S, 137.80°ELiben — 50.00°N, 14.00°ELiben — 49.74°N, 13.54°ELiben — 49.72°N, 13.57°ELiben — 49.80°N, 13.63°ELiben — 49.82°N, 13.75°EVinice — 50.00°N, 14.00°E

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The named rock units Scyphozoa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 295 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 55 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scyphozoa and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Scyphozoa and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

3,525 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 738 sites for Scyphozoa, and this reads 240 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

318 references

Each of the 1,195 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. 306 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Scyphozoa

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Derek Keats
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Commercial use
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3D model

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Sketchfab
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MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itMedusozoa through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goette 1887