Trochocyathus lakii
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TrochocyathusPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivorePBDB, for Trochocyathus
- Life habit
- low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Trochocyathus
- Motility
- stationary, attachedPBDB, for Trochocyathus
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Anthozoa
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Scleractinia
Time the record covers
At least 43 million years on record.
The record covers at least 85.7 Mya to 42.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 39.1 Mya.
12 occurrences of Trochocyathus lakii on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
12 occurrences- Late Cretaceous42%
- Paleocene50%
- Eocene8%
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
3 formations
- Porters Creek Formation · Midway Group3
- Rohatce Formation2
- Sucarnochee Clay Formation · Midway Group2
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The named rock units Trochocyathus lakii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Trochocyathus lakii and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Trochocyathus lakii and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Cucullaea3 sites
- Caryophyllia konincki2 sites
- Nucula (Nucula) mediavia2 sites
- Agaronia1 site
- Amusium (Propeamussium) alabamense1 site
- Balanophyllia caulifera1 site
- Cadulus1 site
- Callianassa1 site
- Cladocora barkii1 site
- Corbula1 site
- Eupleura1 site
- Euspira1 site
- Exilia pergracilis1 site
- Falsifusus1 site
- Gemmula (Coronia)1 site
- Goniopora websteri1 site
- Jupiteria1 site
- Leptocyathus hexacristatus1 site
- Natica1 site
- Orthosurcula1 site
- Ostrea crenulimarginata1 site
- Ostrea pulaskensis1 site
- Palaeopsammia collignoni1 site
- Palaeopsammia zitteli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Trochocyathus lakii, 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
9 references- Stratigraphic Distribution of Paleocene and Eocene Fossils in the Eastern Gulf Coast Region2
- Revisione della fauna neocretacica della Libia: coralli, fam. Smilotrochidae, Caryophylliidae, Parasmiliidae, Eupsammidae [Revision of the Cretaceous fauna from Libya: corals, fam. Smilotrochidae, Caryophylliidae, Parasmiliidae, Eupsammidae]2
- The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species2
- Taxonomic opinions on Cretaceous corals1
- Impact of lithification on the diversity, size distribution, and recovery dynamics of marine invertebrate assemblages1
- Corals of the KT-boundary: Scleractinian corals of the suborders Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina1
- Coraux pas encore décrits ou redécrits du Crétacé supérieur de Bohême1
- Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar [Monograph of fossil corals from Madagascar]1
- Sind fossil corals and Alcyonaria1
Each of the 12 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 content0
No picture of Trochocyathus lakii was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Trochocyathus lakii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Trochocyathus lakii 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 itTrochocyathus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duncan 1880