Cliftonia

No picture of Cliftonia is on file. This entry was cached before the site began recording which collections were searched, so one that had nothing cannot be told from one that was never asked.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TriplesiidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Brachiopoda
Vision
blindPBDB, for Strophomenata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 461.1 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Ordovician — about 131 of 139 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 8 of 139 occurrencesSilurian462–461 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences461–459 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 1 occurrence457–455 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences453–451 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 1 occurrence450–449 Mya — about 3 occurrences449–447 Mya — about 5 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 5 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 36 occurrences445–443 Mya — about 68 occurrences443–442 Mya — about 7 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences433–431 Mya — about 4 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 2 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–423 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences458.2 Mya426.7 Mya461.9 Mya421.9 Mya

139 occurrences of Cliftonia 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

139 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

37 formations

Kuldiga — 56.22°N, 21.20°EKuldiga — 56.44°N, 21.61°EKuldiga — 56.60°N, 21.05°EKuldiga — 57.25°N, 22.59°EKuldiga — 56.85°N, 21.55°EKuldiga — 56.72°N, 21.61°EKuldiga — 57.26°N, 23.11°EKuldiga — 57.28°N, 25.41°EKuldiga — 56.85°N, 21.71°EKuldiga — 56.99°N, 21.77°EKuldiga — 57.03°N, 22.78°EKuldiga — 56.72°N, 22.77°EKuldiga — 56.87°N, 21.58°EKuldiga — 57.27°N, 21.98°EKuldiga — 57.21°N, 21.65°EKuldiga — 56.75°N, 22.70°EKuldiga — 56.64°N, 22.79°EKuldiga — 56.63°N, 20.85°EKuldiga — 56.91°N, 24.15°EKuldiga — 56.89°N, 21.20°EKuldiga — 56.64°N, 21.41°EKuldiga — 55.92°N, 21.56°EKuldiga — 57.88°N, 24.37°EKuldiga — 57.80°N, 23.24°EKuldiga — 58.32°N, 22.39°EKuldiga — 58.44°N, 26.56°ETommarp — 58.17°N, 13.53°ETommarp — 58.13°N, 13.77°ETommarp — 58.23°N, 15.73°ETommarp — 58.14°N, 13.74°ETommarp — 58.20°N, 13.80°ETommarp — 58.24°N, 13.73°ETommarp — 58.60°N, 13.40°ELangåra — 59.84°N, 10.51°ELangåra — 59.86°N, 10.56°ELangåra — 59.89°N, 10.54°EWufeng — 33.00°N, 111.00°EWufeng — 32.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 28.00°N, 105.00°EWufeng — 29.00°N, 107.00°EWufeng — 31.00°N, 112.00°EWenallt — 51.83°N, 3.58°WKuanyinchiao — 28.00°N, 108.00°EKuanyinchiao — 28.08°N, 106.86°EKuanyinchiao — 31.00°N, 112.00°EKuanyinchiao — 28.36°N, 108.51°EKuanyinchiao — 28.23°N, 109.10°ECape Phillips — 75.80°N, 94.50°WNoix Limestone — 39.42°N, 91.00°WGrande Coupe — 48.54°N, 64.25°WHusbergøya — 59.86°N, 10.72°EWanyaoshu — 24.47°N, 98.65°ELangoyen — 60.00°N, 11.00°ELangoyen — 59.88°N, 10.59°ELangara — 60.00°N, 11.00°ELangara — 59.88°N, 10.59°EKraluv Dvur — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKosov — 50.00°N, 14.00°EKosov — 50.08°N, 14.62°EDon Braulio — 31.00°S, 69.00°WDon Braulio — 31.23°S, 68.53°WWhite Head — 48.50°N, 64.23°WLeemon — 37.56°N, 89.62°WLeemon — 37.24°N, 89.46°WPlas Uchaf — 52.93°N, 3.18°WKildare Limestone — 53.17°N, 6.75°WGulang — 38.00°N, 102.00°ERosan — 48.00°N, 4.00°WLower Ktaoua — 30.00°N, 8.50°W

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The named rock units Cliftonia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cliftonia and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Cliftonia and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

904 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 133 sites for Cliftonia, 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

43 references

Each of the 139 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. 31 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 content0

No picture of Cliftonia is on file.

This entry was cached before the site began recording which collections were searched, so one that had nothing cannot be told from one that was never asked.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Foerste 1909