Tumulocyathus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TumulocyathidaePBDB
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 512.1 Mya.

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79 occurrences of Tumulocyathus 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

79 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

13 formations

Usa — 56.00°N, 88.00°EUsa — 54.00°N, 90.75°EUsa — 54.23°N, 90.82°EPestrotsvet — 61.03°N, 126.13°EPestrotsvet — 60.82°N, 125.32°EPestrotsvet — 66.40°N, 112.28°EPestrotsvet — 71.83°N, 107.00°EPestrotsvet — 61.07°N, 126.18°EBalakhtison — 53.77°N, 93.48°ESalaany Gol — 46.87°N, 95.80°EUst'kundat — 56.00°N, 88.00°EKrasnoporog — 67.22°N, 87.03°EKotuy — 68.68°N, 105.03°EKotuy — 69.02°N, 103.85°EUpper Monok — 52.83°N, 90.43°EUpper Monok — 52.40°N, 89.07°EKulpara — 34.70°S, 137.70°ESanta Barbara — 39.35°N, 8.40°EWilkawillina Limestone — 31.27°S, 138.88°EBazaikha — 55.97°N, 92.92°EMedvezhyn — 70.97°N, 102.00°E

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The named rock units Tumulocyathus 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.

Tumulocyathus and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Tumulocyathus and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

227 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Tumulocyathus, 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

13 references

Each of the 79 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

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No picture of Tumulocyathus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tumulocyathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tumulocyathus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itTumulocyathidae through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.