Taylorcyathus
No picture of Taylorcyathus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Taylorcyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BronchocyathidaePBDB
- 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 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.
51 occurrences of Taylorcyathus 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
51 occurrences- Cambrian100%
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
17 formations
- Usa Formation21
- Matoppa Formation · Nebida Group4
- Pestrotsvet Formation3
- Xiannudong Formation2
- Alconera Formation2
- Dmitriyevskaya Formation2
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The named rock units Taylorcyathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Taylorcyathus and its relatives
CambrianWhere Taylorcyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.
Found in the same rock
168 taxa- Nochoroicyathus14 sites
- Archaeolynthus13 sites
- Tumuliolynthus12 sites
- Dokidocyathus11 sites
- Erismacoscinus11 sites
- Capsulocyathus10 sites
- Fransuasaecyathus10 sites
- Dictyocyathus9 sites
- Gordonicyathus9 sites
- Rotundocyathus9 sites
- Sibirecyathus9 sites
- Tumulocyathus9 sites
- Thalamocyathus8 sites
- Baikalocyathus7 sites
- Cambrocyathellus7 sites
- Degeletticyathus7 sites
- Inessocyathus7 sites
- Loculicyathus7 sites
- Szecyathus7 sites
- Agyrekocyathus6 sites
- Geocyathus6 sites
- Isiticyathus6 sites
- Ladaecyathus6 sites
- Ajacicyathida5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Taylorcyathus, 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
16 references- Biostratigraphy of the Kiya River section. - Early Cambrian Archaeocyaths and spicular sponges from the Kiya River section (Kuznetsk Alatau)18
- Stratigrafiya i arkheotsiaty nizhnego kembriya Altaye-Sayanskoy skladchatoy oblasti [Lower Cambrian stratigraphy and archaeocyatha of the Altay-Sayan fold belt]8
- Monticulos de arqueociatos y calcimicrobios del Cambrico inferior de Terrades, Gerona (Pirineo oriental, Espana) [Lower Cambrian archaeocyatha and calcimicrobe mounds in Terrades, Gerona (Eastern Pyrenees, Spain)]5
- Varlamov et al., 20083
- Anatomy of the Early Cambrian La Sentinella reef complex, Serra Scoris, SW Sardinia, Italy3
- Rannekembriyskiye fatsialnyye kompleksy arkheotsiat (r. Lena, sredneye techeniye) [Lower Cambrian archaeocyath complexes (middle Lena River)]3
- Biostratigrafiya i fauna kembriya Primorya [Cambrian biostratigraphy and fauna of Primorye]2
- Early Cambrian microbial reefs, archaeocyathan inter-reef communities, and associated facies of the Yangtze Platform1
- Ovetian cryptic archaeocyaths, lower Cambrian from Las Ermitas (Córdoba, Spain)1
- Fracturacion sinsedimentaria y diagenesis precoz en las bioconstrucciones del Cambrio inferior de Alconera (Ossa-Morena) [Synsedimentary fracturation and early diagenesis in Lower Cambrian bioconstructions of Alconera (Ossa Morena)]1
- New taxa of archaeocyathids from the Lower Cambrian of Central China1
- Lower Cambrian reef mounds of Sierra Morena (SW Spain)1
Each of the 51 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. 4 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
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No picture of Taylorcyathus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Taylorcyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Taylorcyathus 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 itBronchocyathidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.