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Heterocyathus

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Description

Heterocyathus is a genus of coral of the family Caryophylliidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterocyathus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2258939	https://www.gbif.org/species/2258939
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	6500	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=6500

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Caryophylliidae : Heterocyathus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
phylum	Cnidaria	Hatschek 1888
class	Anthozoa	Ehrenberg 1834
subclass	Zoantharia	de Blainville 1830
order	Scleractinia	Bourne 1900
suborder	Caryophylliina
superfamily	Caryophylliicae	Gray 1847
family	Caryophylliidae	Gray 1847
genus	Heterocyathus	Milne Edwards & Haime 1848

Scientific Name

Heterocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Name Published In

Milne H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 1. Observations sur la structure et le development des polypiers en général. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie. 9(4): 37-89.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Heterocyathus	genus	belongs to Caryophylliidae	stated with evidence	Veron, 2000
Heterocyathus	genus	belongs to Scleractinia	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (25%)

First Recorded Appearance

109 - 105 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

marine (based on Scleractinia)

Motility

facultatively mobile

Vision

blind (based on Anthozoa)

Diet

microcarnivore

Reproduction

alternating, asexual, dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Scleractinia)

Ecospace Comments

ECOSPACE CODE: 331.

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Caryophylliidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterocyathus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Heterocyathus aequicostatus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		21	11.6 Ma Miocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Heterocyathus alternatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Heterocyathus antoniae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Heterocyathus carthausi ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Heterocyathus elberti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	5.33 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Heterocyathus elongatus species	listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Heterocyathus hemisphaericus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Heterocyathus japonicus species	listed (PBDB)		7	5.33 Ma Miocene	0.13 Ma Pleistocene
Heterocyathus mai species	listed (PBDB)		1	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Heterocyathus priscus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Heterocyathus sulcatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Psammoseris Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Caryophylliidae : *Psammoseris*
Brachytrossatus Strand, 1928	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Caryophylliidae : *Brachytrossatus*
Brachytrochus Duncan, 1876	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Caryophylliidae : *Brachytrochus*
Spongiocyathus Folkeson, 1919	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Caryophylliidae : *Spongiocyathus*
Brachytrochus Reuss, 1864	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Caryophylliidae : *Brachytrochus*
Stephanoseris Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Caryophylliidae : *Stephanoseris*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1848	Heterocyathus Milne-Edwards and Haime
1851	Stephanoseris Milne-Edwards and Haime
2000	Heterocyathus Veron p. 412
2002	Bracytrochus Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Heterocyathus Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Veron J.E.N. (2000) , Corals of the World

Wells, John W., 1986: null. A List of Scleractinian generic and subgeneric taxa, 1758-1985, (special issue). 69. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Hallan, J. (2000-current). Biology Catalog. Web compilation accessible at http://bug.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ (accessed June 2012). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000 unverified - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ann. Sci. Nat., [3] (Zool.), 9 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Hoeksema BW, Best MB (1991) New observations on scleractinian corals from Indonesia: 2. Sipunculan-associated species belonging to the genera Heterocyathus and Heteropsammia. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 65: 221-245. - via World Register of Marine Species

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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