Clidophorus planulatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClidophorusPBDB
- Diet
- deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Nuculanidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- coastal,inner shelf,outer shelf,oceanicPBDB, for Nuculanidae
Time the record covers
At most 1.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 451 Mya and 449.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Clidophorus planulatus on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
6 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
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The named rock units Clidophorus planulatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Clidophorus planulatus and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Clidophorus planulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Byssonychia radiata4 sites
- Calymene4 sites
- Catazyga headi4 sites
- Archinacella pulaskiensis3 sites
- Cryptolithus tessellatus3 sites
- Cyrtolites ornatus3 sites
- Lyrodesma poststriatum3 sites
- Leptaena moniquensis2 sites
- Pholadomorpha pholadiformis2 sites
- Pterinea demissa2 sites
- Rafinesquina alternata2 sites
- Rafinesquina mucronata2 sites
- Bythocypris cylindrica1 site
- Clathrospira subconica1 site
- Clidophorus brevi1 site
- Clidophorus postvolutus1 site
- Clionychia curta1 site
- Colpomya constricta1 site
- Colpomya faba1 site
- Ctenobolbina ciliata1 site
- Ctenodonta chambliensis1 site
- Ctenodonta hyacinthensis1 site
- Cuneamya elliptica1 site
- Cymatonota recta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Clidophorus planulatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 6 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Clidophorus planulatus 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 Clidophorus planulatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Clidophorus planulatus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itClidophorus through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Conrad 1847