Cincta

Cincta is an extinct class of echinoderms that lived only in the Middle Cambrian epoch. Homostelea is a junior synonym. The classification of cinctans is controversial, but they are probably part of the echinoderm stem group.

Cincta

Dwergenpaartje · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EchinodermataPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB
Motility
stationaryPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB
Environment
marinePBDB, for Echinodermata

Time the record covers

At least 320 million years on record.

The record covers at least 504.5 Mya to 184.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 508.2 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 78 of 149 occurrencesOrdovician — about 0 of 149 occurrencesSilurian — about 0 of 149 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 149 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 149 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 149 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 149 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 149 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 149 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 71 of 149 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 149 occurrences515–503 Mya — about 29 occurrences503–492 Mya — about 49 occurrences203–191 Mya — about 27 occurrences191–180 Mya — about 44 occurrences180–168 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences504.5 Mya184.2 Mya515 Mya168 Mya

149 occurrences of Cincta 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

149 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

31 formations

Murero — 41.66°N, 1.77°WMurero — 41.55°N, 1.67°WMurero — 41.15°N, 1.48°WMurero — 41.13°N, 1.25°WMurero — 41.10°N, 1.20°WBelemnite Marls — 50.73°N, 2.87°WOville — 42.85°N, 5.87°WOville — 43.17°N, 5.31°WLa Gardie — 43.40°N, 2.63°ELa Gardie — 43.33°N, 2.42°ELa Gardie — 43.90°N, 2.10°ELa Gardie — 45.52°N, 4.87°ERio Palomar — 41.29°N, 0.79°WNevian — 43.20°N, 2.90°ENevian — 43.05°N, 2.78°ENevian — 43.16°N, 2.96°ELower Lias — 51.80°N, 1.88°WJince — 49.78°N, 13.97°EBuchava — 49.93°N, 14.05°EBuchava — 49.98°N, 13.77°EBuchava — 49.96°N, 13.74°EBorobia — 41.47°N, 1.87°WBorobia — 41.43°N, 1.83°WBorobia — 41.67°N, 1.80°WFerrals — 43.40°N, 2.63°ENivel E — 43.38°N, 2.83°ENivel E — 43.42°N, 2.73°EÁgua de Madeiros — 39.73°N, 9.04°WEscales — 42.39°N, 0.74°EMayaktakh — 71.02°N, 127.54°EBailiella — 31.21°N, 7.88°WBailiella — 31.05°N, 7.92°WMenevia — 51.88°N, 5.21°WCoulouma — 43.36°N, 2.72°EMaentwrog — 52.93°N, 3.94°WSpatsizi — 57.50°N, 128.90°WSkryje Shale — 49.97°N, 13.77°ECerkoviste — 42.98°N, 27.03°EMontredon-des-Corbières — 43.41°N, 3.09°EIsztiméri Mészko — 47.16°N, 17.79°E

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The named rock units Cincta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cincta and its relatives

Cambrian

Where Cincta and its relatives were recorded in the Cambrian.

Found in the same rock

440 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 125 sites for Cincta, 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

48 references

Each of the 149 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. 36 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

Media content1

Picture of Cincta

Credit
Dwergenpaartje
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cincta was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEchinodermata through timeFormations of the CambrianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jaekel 1918)