Cyclinella cyclica

No picture of Cyclinella cyclica 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 Cyclinella cyclica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CyclinellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Cyclinella
Life habit
infaunalPBDB, for Cyclinella
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Cyclinella
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Miocene — about 54 of 55 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 55 occurrencesPliocene21–20 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.6–9.1 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.1–8.5 Mya — about 4 occurrences8.5–7.9 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.9–7.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences4.9–4.3 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.3–3.7 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences3.7–3.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15.98 Mya5.333 Mya20.9 Mya3.1 Mya

55 occurrences of Cyclinella cyclica on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

55 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

10 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WGatun — 9.26°N, 79.92°WCastilletes — 11.95°N, 71.27°WCastilletes — 11.96°N, 71.26°WCastilletes — 11.93°N, 71.36°WJimol — 12.00°N, 71.31°WJimol — 11.96°N, 71.43°WJimol — 11.93°N, 71.42°WCantaure — 11.90°N, 69.84°WFerrotepec — 18.03°N, 103.60°WTubará — 9.53°N, 74.87°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WCastillo — 10.37°N, 70.05°WEl Veral — 11.00°N, 69.83°WUrumaco — 11.00°N, 69.83°WManzanilla — 10.62°N, 61.13°W

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The named rock units Cyclinella cyclica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cyclinella cyclica and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cyclinella cyclica and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

456 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Cyclinella cyclica, 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

7 references

Each of the 55 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 Cyclinella cyclica 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 Cyclinella cyclica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cyclinella cyclica 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 itCyclinella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Guppy 1866)