Cyclina (Cyclinorbis)
No picture of Cyclina (Cyclinorbis) 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 Cyclina (Cyclinorbis), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyclinaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Veneridae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Veneridae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Veneridae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 37.71 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cyclina (Cyclinorbis) on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
1 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
- Tainohata Formation · Kobe Group1
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The named rock units Cyclina (Cyclinorbis) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclina (Cyclinorbis) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cyclina (Cyclinorbis) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Barbatia nodai1 site
- Cordosphaeridium1 site
- Crepidula tainohataensis1 site
- Cribroperidinium1 site
- Cyclina nodai1 site
- Ferganea1 site
- Gyrodes1 site
- Modiolus1 site
- Pitar ozakii1 site
- Potamides1 site
- Saxidomus1 site
- Spiniferites1 site
- Sulcobuccinum1 site
- Trapezium (Neotrapezium) kobe1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cyclina (Cyclinorbis), and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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 Cyclina (Cyclinorbis) 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 Cyclina (Cyclinorbis), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cyclina (Cyclinorbis) 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 itCyclina through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Makiyama 1926)