Szecyathus

Szecyathus

Zhuravleva, I.T. · CC BY 4.0 · 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
PyxidocyathidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Porifera
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Porifera
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Porifera
Vision
blindPBDB, for Porifera

Time the record covers

At least 5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 521 Mya to 516 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 525.5 Mya to 508.2 Mya.

Cambrian — about 20 of 20 occurrencesCambrian526–525 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences525–525 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences525–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–524 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences524–523 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences523–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–522 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences522–521 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences521–521 Mya — about 1 occurrence521–520 Mya — about 2 occurrences520–519 Mya — about 2 occurrences519–519 Mya — about 2 occurrences519–518 Mya — about 2 occurrences518–517 Mya — about 2 occurrences517–517 Mya — about 2 occurrences517–516 Mya — about 2 occurrences516–516 Mya — about 1 occurrence516–515 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences515–514 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences514–514 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences514–513 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences513–513 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences513–512 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences512–511 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences511–511 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences511–510 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences510–510 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences510–509 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences509–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences508–508 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences521 Mya516 Mya526 Mya507.7 Mya

20 occurrences of Szecyathus 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

20 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

Usa — 56.00°N, 88.00°EUst'kundat — 56.00°N, 88.00°EKhuzhirtai — 49.40°N, 136.38°EBalakhtison — 53.77°N, 93.48°E

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

Szecyathus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Szecyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

121 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Szecyathus, 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

3 references

Each of the 20 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 Szecyathus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Zhuravleva, I.T.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Szecyathus 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 itPyxidocyathidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vologdin 1957