atlanticus
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Metacyathidae
- Order: Archaeocyathus
- Family: atlanticus
Occurrence and palaeoecology (summary)
Archaeocyathus atlanticus is reported from archaeocyathan bioherm settings in the Forteau Formation of southern Labrador, Canada, and is described as becoming dominant near the top of a bioherm horizon (contrasting with Metaldetes profundus, which is numerically dominant through much of the studied sequence).[2]
The same study frames Archaeocyathus distribution as habitat/zonation-dependent within bioherms and related lagoonal environments, including distinctions involving bioherm structure and the spatial arrangement (e.g., clustered in lagoonal environments vs. more solitary occurrences elsewhere).[2]
Visual Description
Museum-specimen images in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset under this family path depict Archaeocyathus atlanticus as calcified, cup-/bowl-shaped archaeocyath forms (typical of archaeocyaths as fossilized sponges), shown as preserved, sometimes sectioned or mounted specimens photographed for museum documentation.[1]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Metacyathidae / Archaeocyathus / atlanticus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 S. Fraser Hart. Archaeocyath palaeoecology. The Paleontological Society Special Publications. 1992. https://doi.org/10.1017/s2475262200006821.