Curvolithus
No picture of Curvolithus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Curvolithus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IchnofossilsPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 389 million years on record.
The record covers at least 538.8 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 635 Mya to 143.1 Mya.
7 occurrences of Curvolithus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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
7 occurrences- Cambrian14%
- Ordovician14%
- Late Jurassic57%
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
4 formations
- Kap Leslie Formation4
- Urusis Formation1
- Tal Formation1
- Powers Steps Formation · Wabana Group1
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The named rock units Curvolithus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Curvolithus and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Curvolithus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Ammonoidea4 sites
- Camptonectes4 sites
- Entolium orbiculare4 sites
- Pleuromya uniformis4 sites
- Protocardia striatula4 sites
- Astarte3 sites
- Belemnitida3 sites
- Buchia mosquensis3 sites
- Goniomya3 sites
- Isocyprina3 sites
- Oxytoma inequivalvis3 sites
- Pinna3 sites
- Pleuromya3 sites
- Skolithos3 sites
- Sulcoactaeon3 sites
- Taimyrothyris3 sites
- Angaria2 sites
- Buchia rugosa2 sites
- Corbicellopsis2 sites
- Corbulomima2 sites
- Diplichnites2 sites
- Diplocraterion2 sites
- Eriphyla2 sites
- Isognomon2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Curvolithus, 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
4 references- Genesis and environmental significance of Upper Cretaceous shell concentrations from the Cauvery Basin, southern India4
- The Neoproterozoic of southwestern Africa, with emphasis on platform stratigraphy and paleontology1
- Ichnology of the Upper Cambrian? to Lower Ordovician Bell Island and Wabana groups of eastern Newfoundland, Canada1
- Fauna and biogenic structures in Krol-Tal succession (Vendian-Early Cambrian), Lesser Himalaya: their biostratigraphic and palaeoecological significance1
Each of the 7 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 Curvolithus was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Curvolithus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Curvolithus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fritsch 1908