Cyclonema cancellatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyclonemaPBDB
- Diet
- coprophage, deposit feederPBDB, for Cyclonema
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cyclonema
- Motility
- facultatively mobile, epibiontPBDB, for Cyclonema
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Platyceratidae
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 443.1 Mya to 419.62 Mya.
4 occurrences of Cyclonema cancellatum on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
4 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Cyclonema cancellatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cyclonema cancellatum and its relatives
SilurianWhere Cyclonema cancellatum and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
241 taxa- Calymene2 sites
- Catazone latona2 sites
- Coelocaulus fugitiva2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Leperditia2 sites
- Lingula2 sites
- Oriostoma dives2 sites
- Pleurorima migrans2 sites
- Proetus2 sites
- Pterinea2 sites
- Ptychosphaera constricta2 sites
- Strophostylus cancellata2 sites
- Acervularia1 site
- Actinopterella1 site
- Algae1 site
- Anthozoa1 site
- Anticalyptraea1 site
- Archaeogastropoda1 site
- Archaeopraga pinnaeformis1 site
- Ascoceras1 site
- Atrypa reticularis1 site
- Aulopora1 site
- Auriptygma bulimina1 site
- Barrandecirrus filiformis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cyclonema cancellatum, 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
3 references- Perner, 19032
- Silurian Reefs of Gotland1
- Medina and Cataract formations of the Siluric of New York and Ontario1
Each of the 4 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 Cyclonema cancellatum
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Cyclonema cancellatum 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 itCyclonema through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Angelin and Lindström 1880)