Cupularostrum contracta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CupularostrumPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Trigonirhynchiidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 250 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 137.05 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 132.6 Mya.

Devonian — about 56 of 57 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 57 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 57 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 57 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 57 occurrences416–407 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences407–397 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences397–387 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences387–378 Mya — about 14 occurrences378–368 Mya — about 25 occurrences368–358 Mya — about 16 occurrences146–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–127 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences387.95 Mya137.05 Mya416 Mya127 Mya

57 occurrences of Cupularostrum contracta on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

57 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

14 formations

Chemung — 36.75°N, 82.25°WChemung — 36.99°N, 81.42°WChemung — 37.80°N, 80.30°WChemung — 40.46°N, 79.66°WChemung — 41.81°N, 77.78°WChemung — 41.88°N, 77.50°WChemung — 42.55°N, 76.82°WChemung — 42.75°N, 79.48°WChemung — 42.23°N, 78.40°WChemung — 42.25°N, 77.79°WChemung — 42.31°N, 79.57°WChemung — 42.33°N, 77.67°WChemung — 42.20°N, 76.73°WChemung — 42.83°N, 76.85°WChemung — 42.17°N, 76.50°WChemung — 39.65°N, 78.76°WThree Forks Shale — 45.92°N, 111.55°WAlfred Shale — 42.25°N, 77.78°WAlfred Shale — 42.77°N, 77.27°WAlfred Shale — 44.17°N, 73.43°WThree Forks — 45.87°N, 111.71°WThree Forks — 45.95°N, 111.55°WThree Forks — 45.79°N, 111.73°WThree Forks — 45.88°N, 111.55°WThree Forks — 45.88°N, 111.43°WIthaca — 41.96°N, 76.71°WIthaca — 42.45°N, 77.98°WIthaca — 42.60°N, 76.80°WIthaca — 42.15°N, 76.69°WMachias — 42.32°N, 77.73°WMachias — 41.96°N, 77.11°WMachias — 41.99°N, 76.62°WLime Creek — 43.83°N, 92.93°WLime Creek — 43.05°N, 92.97°WSnyder Creek Shale — 38.72°N, 92.09°WCanaseraga — 41.96°N, 76.51°WGardeau — 42.90°N, 76.81°WWiscoy Sandstone — 42.33°N, 77.70°WJava — 41.96°N, 76.71°WSappington — 45.78°N, 111.73°WTriangle — 42.30°N, 75.51°W

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The named rock units Cupularostrum contracta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cupularostrum contracta and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cupularostrum contracta and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

126 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Cupularostrum contracta, 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

5 references

Each of the 57 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. 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 Cupularostrum contracta 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 Cupularostrum contracta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cupularostrum contracta 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 itCupularostrum through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1843)