Cyclonema minuta
No picture of Cyclonema minuta was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Cyclonema minuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 4.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 453.8 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 457.3 Mya to 443.1 Mya.
12 occurrences of Cyclonema minuta 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
12 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
10 formations
- Stonington Formation3
- Arnheim Formation1
- Hermitage Formation1
- Bigby-Cannon Limestone Formation1
- Leipers Formation1
- Mannie Formation1
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The named rock units Cyclonema minuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cyclonema minuta and its relatives
OrdovicianWhere Cyclonema minuta and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.
Found in the same rock
308 taxa- Rafinesquina alternata8 sites
- Cornulites6 sites
- Conularia5 sites
- Dalmanella5 sites
- Modiolopsis5 sites
- Monticulipora5 sites
- Pterinea demissa5 sites
- Anazyga recurvirostra4 sites
- Ctenodonta4 sites
- Hallopora4 sites
- Hebertella occidentalis4 sites
- Liospira micula4 sites
- Lophospira4 sites
- Peronopora4 sites
- Petrocrania scabiosa4 sites
- Platystrophia acutilirata4 sites
- Rhombotrypa quadrata4 sites
- Tubulotrypa auloporoides4 sites
- Amplexopora3 sites
- Bythopora3 sites
- Ceraurus3 sites
- Corynotrypa inflata3 sites
- Crinoidea3 sites
- Cyrtodonta3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Cyclonema minuta, 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
5 references- Pre-Chattanooga stratigraphy in Central Tennessee4
- The Richmond Formation of Michigan4
- Caradocian-Gedinnian echinoderm associations of Central and Eastern North America2
- The fossil fauna of the Ordovician in the Cincinnati Region1
- Brachiospongidae: a memoir on a group of Silurian sponges1
Each of the 12 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 Cyclonema minuta was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Cyclonema minuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
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 OrdovicianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hall 1845)