Cyclocyclopa sp.
Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
Time the record covers
At least 130 million years on record.
The record covers at least 461 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 468 Mya to 326.9 Mya.
8 occurrences of Cyclocyclopa sp. on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
8 occurrences- Ordovician38%
- Carboniferous63%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Cyclocyclopa sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclocyclopa sp. and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Cyclocyclopa sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
149 taxa- Amplexizaphrentis5 sites
- Cyclopentagonopa sp. n. sp.5 sites
- Cleiothyridina sublamellosa4 sites
- Pentremites4 sites
- Archimedes3 sites
- Calix3 sites
- Cameroceras3 sites
- Cardiolaria3 sites
- Colpocoryphe3 sites
- Elegantillites sp.3 sites
- Glyptarca3 sites
- Gompholites3 sites
- Heterorthina3 sites
- Neseuretus3 sites
- Nobiliasaphus3 sites
- Ogygites3 sites
- Pentagonopentagonopa sp.3 sites
- Pentremites clavatus3 sites
- Peruniscus3 sites
- Placoparia3 sites
- Praenucula3 sites
- Redonia3 sites
- Reticulariina spinosa3 sites
- Salterocoryphe3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cyclocyclopa sp., 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
2 references- Invertebrate Fauna of the Golconda Formation (Middle Chester) of Indiana, Western Kentucky, and Southern Illinois5
- Estudio bioestratigrafico del Llanvirn y Llandeilo (Dobrotiviense) en la parte meridional de la zona Centroiberica (España)3
Each of the 8 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Cyclocyclopa sp.
- Source
- Smithsonian
- Credit
- Smithsonian Institution
- Licence
- CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cyclocyclopa sp. was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.