Cyclacantharia

Cyclacantharia

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 290.1 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 293.52 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Permian — about 129 of 129 occurrencesPermian294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 2 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 3 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 3 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 3 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 3 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 3 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 3 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 3 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 10 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 10 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 10 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 10 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 10 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 10 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 12 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 13 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 9 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 2 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 2 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences290.1 Mya264.28 Mya294.2 Mya259.2 Mya

129 occurrences of Cyclacantharia on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

129 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

15 formations

Road Canyon — 30.24°N, 103.44°WRoad Canyon — 30.38°N, 103.16°WRoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WRoad Canyon — 30.35°N, 103.27°WRoad Canyon — 30.35°N, 103.24°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.40°WWord — 30.39°N, 103.14°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.16°WWord — 30.34°N, 103.30°WWord — 30.38°N, 103.29°WWord — 30.23°N, 103.44°WCherry Canyon — 31.86°N, 104.82°WCherry Canyon — 31.87°N, 104.87°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WBone Spring — 31.90°N, 104.88°WBone Spring — 31.48°N, 104.95°WBone Spring — 31.35°N, 104.86°WBell Canyon — 31.95°N, 104.73°WBell Canyon — 31.92°N, 104.75°WSkinner Ranch — 30.26°N, 103.35°WSkinner Ranch — 30.38°N, 103.20°WCathedral Mountain — 30.39°N, 103.14°WCathedral Mountain — 30.39°N, 103.17°WCathedral Mountain — 30.29°N, 103.31°WCutoff — 31.99°N, 104.92°WCutoff — 31.84°N, 104.85°WLas Delicias — 26.43°N, 102.88°WKhuff — 21.01°N, 57.67°ECapitan — 31.92°N, 104.82°WCapitan — 31.90°N, 104.86°WRoad — 30.35°N, 103.27°WDelaware Mountain — 31.17°N, 104.35°WDelaware Mountain — 31.39°N, 104.55°WHess — 30.37°N, 103.15°WSakamotosawa — 39.14°N, 141.65°E

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The named rock units Cyclacantharia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cyclacantharia and its relatives

Permian

Where Cyclacantharia and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,172 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 118 sites for Cyclacantharia, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

7 references

Each of the 129 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 content1

Picture of Cyclacantharia

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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What may have been alongside itCyclacanthariinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper and Grant 1969