Cycloconcha
No picture of Cycloconcha 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 Cycloconcha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CycloconchidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At least 8.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 458.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
16 occurrences of Cycloconcha on record, most of them in the Ordovician. 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
16 occurrences- Ordovician100%
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
7 formations
- Waynesville Formation6
- Whitewater Formation2
- Kope Formation1
- Santa Gertrudis Formation1
- Bardahessiagh Formation1
- Upper Whitewater Formation1
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The named rock units Cycloconcha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cycloconcha and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cycloconcha and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
305 taxa- Ambonychia8 sites
- Halloporidae7 sites
- Zygospira7 sites
- Flexicalymene meeki6 sites
- Modiolopsis6 sites
- Nuculites6 sites
- Onniella6 sites
- Pseudolingula6 sites
- Tentaculites6 sites
- Deceptrix5 sites
- Liospira5 sites
- Modiolopsis modiolaris5 sites
- Sinuites5 sites
- Bivalvia4 sites
- Ctenodonta4 sites
- Cymatonota recta4 sites
- Flexicalymene4 sites
- Isotelus maximus4 sites
- Lophospira4 sites
- Lyrodesma4 sites
- Pholadomorpha pholadiformis4 sites
- Rafinesquina4 sites
- Similodonta4 sites
- Calymenidae3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Cycloconcha, 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- Taxonomic richness and abundance of Late Ordovician gastropods and bivalves in mollusc-rich strata of the Cincinnati Arch7
- Evolution, succession & replacement in the type Caradoc (Ordovician) benthic faunas of England3
- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region2
- Ordovician Polyplacophora (Mollusca) from North America1
- Una fauna de bivalvos en la Formacion Santa Gertrudis (Ordovicico) de la Provincia de Salta (Argentina)1
- The paleoecology of a Late Ordovician shale unit from southwest Ohio and southeastern Indiana1
- A revision of Late Ordovician bivalves from Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, Ireland1
Each of the 16 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 Cycloconcha 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 Cycloconcha, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cycloconcha 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 itCycloconchidae through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.