Cyclinella
Searched as Cyclinella cyclica domingensis. The Paleobiology Database treats Cyclinella as the accepted name.
Cyclinella is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Veneridae.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyclininaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 6.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 5.333 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cyclinella on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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- Miocene100%
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
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The named rock units Cyclinella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclinella and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cyclinella and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
2,247 taxa- Chione (Chionopsis) tegulum20 sites
- Callista (Costacallista) hornii19 sites
- Callocardia (Agriopoma) gatunensis18 sites
- Clementia (Clementia) dariena dariena18 sites
- Turritella uvasana18 sites
- Psammacoma gatunensis15 sites
- Anadara13 sites
- Crassatella uvasana12 sites
- Amaurellina moragai11 sites
- Dentalium stramineum11 sites
- Gari (Gobraeus) hornii11 sites
- Macrocallista maculata11 sites
- Pitar uvasana11 sites
- Lamelliconcha cora10 sites
- Semele laevis costaricensis10 sites
- Acutostrea idriaensis9 sites
- Cadulus (Platyschides)9 sites
- Cardium (Dallocardia)9 sites
- Conus molis9 sites
- Glossaulax reclusiana9 sites
- Marcia9 sites
- Nemocardium (Nemocardium) linteum9 sites
- Surcula cowlitzensis9 sites
- Trigoniocardia (Trigoniocardia) aminensis9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 81 sites for Cyclinella, 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
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Cyclinella
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Cyclinella tenuis · uf:iz:147318
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Cyclinella”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCyclinina through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dall 1902