Stylocyathus

Stylocyathus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaryophylliinaePBDB
Diet
microcarnivorePBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunal, solitary, clonalPBDB, for Caryophylliidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
Environment
marinePBDB, for Scleractinia

Time the record covers

At least 80 million years on record.

The record covers at least 152.21 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 8 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 8 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 8 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences160–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–102 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–64 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences152.21 Mya72.2 Mya160 Mya64 Mya

8 occurrences of Stylocyathus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

8 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

4 formations

Mancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.04°N, 111.04°WMassenkalk — 48.68°N, 10.22°EAmbarimaninga — 16.50°S, 46.00°EGarschella — 47.23°N, 9.33°E

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The named rock units Stylocyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Stylocyathus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Stylocyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

262 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Stylocyathus, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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

Media content1

Picture of Stylocyathus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Stylocyathus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itCaryophylliinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. d'Orbigny 1849