Cyclonema delicatula

Cyclonema delicatula

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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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 438.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 440.5 Mya to 425 Mya.

Silurian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesSilurian441–440 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences440–440 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences440–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–439 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences438.6 Mya426.7 Mya441 Mya424.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Cyclonema delicatula 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

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

4 formations

Lower Visby Beds — 57.63°N, 18.30°EUpper Visby Beds — 57.63°N, 18.30°ESolvik — 59.83°N, 10.43°EKopanina — 50.67°N, 15.17°E

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

Cyclonema delicatula and its relatives

Silurian

Where Cyclonema delicatula and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Cyclonema delicatula, 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

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 delicatula

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cyclonema delicatula 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. (Lindström 1884)